Plan Viewer

Visualise Progress, Verify Accuracy, and Tag Reality — All on the Plan

OVERVIEW

This feature enables project teams to capture, upload, and spatially tag photos, 360° images, and videos directly onto a geospatial interface or floor plan, creating a detailed visual record of project progress over time.

Each image or video is linked to a specific location on the site map, allowing stakeholders to virtually navigate the project as it evolves.

Key capabilities include:

• Easy upload of standard or 360° photos and videos from mobile devices, drones, or reality capture tools.
• Spatial tagging to pin media to exact locations on site maps, floor plans, or BIM models.
• Time-series comparison, allowing users to select a point on the map and view side-by-side comparisons of media captured at different dates (e.g., today vs. two weeks ago).
• Metadata capture, including date, time, user, and device, ensuring full traceability.
• Overlay and annotation tools for marking up images and adding notes or action items.

When combined with 360° imagery and other reality capture technologies (e.g., laser scans), this tool provides a high-fidelity visual audit trail—essential for validating progress, resolving disputes, and improving remote collaboration.

This feature not only enhances communication across the team but also supports QA/QC, compliance, and handover documentation with a reliable, spatially organised visual history of the project.

Working in conjunction with the Photo Annotation and Defect Tagging Tool

This feature allows users to annotate photos and videos—including 360° imagery—by adding comments, markups, and defect tags directly within the platform. Once a visual is uploaded and spatially located on the site map, team members can interact with it to highlight issues, capture observations, or assign tasks.

Key capabilities include:

• Pinpoint annotations on specific areas of a photo or frame of a video, including freehand drawing, arrows, and shapes.
• Comment threads for each annotation, enabling discussion, updates, and resolution tracking.
• Defect tagging, allowing users to classify and categorize issues (e.g., structural, safety, MEP) using customizable labels.
• Status tracking for annotations (e.g., open, in review, resolved), with responsible team members and due dates.
• Linking to workflows, checklists, or tickets so that annotations automatically trigger actions or reporting within broader project management processes.

All annotations are version-controlled and time-stamped, ensuring a clear and auditable record of what was identified, when, and by whom.

This feature enhances quality assurance, improves accountability, and streamlines issue resolution—especially useful for field teams, inspectors, and remote stakeholders reviewing site conditions virtually.

AI-Powered Visual Provenance and Authenticity Verification

This feature leverages AI and metadata analysis to automatically verify the authenticity, location, and uniqueness of uploaded visual media—ensuring that every photo or video reflects the correct place, time, and context.

Key capabilities include:

• Geolocation verification, using embedded GPS metadata, compass orientation, and visual scene matching to confirm that the media was captured at the intended site location.
• AI-based scene recognition, which compares current images to past captures and known site elements (e.g., structures, terrain) to detect inconsistencies or identify potential misplacements.
• Duplicate detection, alerting users when visually or spatially similar photos are uploaded multiple times to prevent clutter and confusion.
• Timestamp validation, ensuring alignment between declared and actual capture dates and flagging any anomalies.
• Tampering detection, using AI models to spot signs of image manipulation or metadata alteration.

This provenance feature enhances trust in visual documentation, supports audit readiness, and strengthens compliance with regulatory and contractual obligations—especially in high-stakes projects where photographic evidence is tied to progress claims, inspections, or handovers.