FAQs

  • Buildings evolve during design, construction and use. REscan captures the reality of the built environment as it actually exists, while providing the ability to easily update the scanned data as needed.

  • It’s never too late or to early to benefit from digitizing your physical assets. Facilities of any age can immediately benefit from using the varied data sets provided from an exact digital twin and the efficiencies gained over older (often poorly maintained) assets can be the most significant.

  • REscan’s patented spatial data management system is capable of scanning at a rate of 250,000 sq ft per hour. The actual amount scanned depends on the features and complexity of the facility, but REscan is significantly faster than its competitors.

  • Scanning consumes approximately 1 terabyte per hour (on our hot swappable drives).

  • Several factors including the feature richness of the spaces and number of building levels to be integrated affect the size, though our files are generally in the 20-40 gigabyte range once processed.

  • REscan has yet to run out of battery or storage power when performing a scan, but the scanning helmet is designed for hot-swapping both the battery and the storage media so that scanning can continue uninterrupted indefinitely.

  • Depending on the size of the site and its feature richness, for every hour scanned it averages about 80 hours of fully automated backend processing time.

  • REscan currently provides scanning services for its commercial clients, with options to have REscan host the data in the cloud or the client can maintain the data themselves. In either case, REscan’s clients always own their data and it is never shared with anyone no matter how the data is managed after backend processing.

  • REscan’s system can ingest and process all industry standard point cloud, tessellated mesh, and constructive geometry file types, making REscan the ideal option where scanned data already exists.

  • REscan has two SBIR contracts from the Air Force to conduct RDT&E on its system’s potential use in the Department of the Air Force.

  • REscan averages a relative horizontal and vertical accuracy within 1.4 inches (3.5 cm).

  • REscan’s technology does NOT utilize the WebGL API as a rendering engine.

  • Data can be delivered as monolithic data drops or as a streaming service.