Product
Birdsview Concrete combines Ground Penetrating Radar, LiDAR and precise point-cloud registration into a single workflow. Locate rebar, post-tension, conduits and voids with millimetre accuracy, in context.
Sensor fusion, AI analysis and cloud delivery in a single workflow.
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A lightweight 3D tracker combining LiDAR and cameras for real-time mapping and positioning. Delivered with a GPR adapter.
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Available with the Proceq GP8800 ground-penetrating radar unit. Proceq GP8100 integration coming soon.
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Automated AI analysis of rebar diameter, cover, centre-distance and position with millimetre precision.
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A web-based platform for a fully automated workflow. Results are visualised automatically in 3D and accessible in the field or back at the office.
Hardware
A handheld scanner that fuses GPR with LiDAR-based positioning. Every radar trace is registered to a millimetre-accurate point cloud, so location is never an afterthought.
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Locate rebar, post-tension, conduits and voids in one sweep.
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On-board SLAM for live registration to a point cloud.
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Cordless, ruggedised, no external markers required.
LiDAR and cameras for real-time positioning. 9 × 9 × 9 cm, 1 kg.
Ground-penetrating radar. 65 cm penetration, 8 cm scan width.
Clamps the tracker to the radar so both record as one unit.
An Apple iPad is required to run the software in the field
Software
Cloud software that turns raw GPR and LiDAR data into deliverables a project team can act on. Results in minutes, not weeks.
After a scan, the platform delivers 3D rebar models with position, depth and diameter, cover measurements and surface point clouds.
Technical data
Real-time tracking and positioning. Modular, compatible with add-on modules and adaptable to other equipment. Open API for custom integrations.
Position, rebar diameter estimate, cover and spacing for every detected rebar, delivered as a full 3D model. Fully automated. No calibration or manual interpretation required.
Built for tight and hard-to-reach areas. Cordless and lightweight, easy to handle on vertical and overhead surfaces such as walls, beams and confined spaces.
Coming soon
Built for covering large areas efficiently. Smooth wheels and a wide scan footprint sweep entire floors, decks and slabs in a single session.
Cordless, ruggedised, built for one-handed use
Data security
Two things every public building owner asks about.
Applications
Project planning and tender accuracy.
Retrofitting assessments.
Maintenance planning.
Cutting and coring safety.
How it works
We combine millimetre-accurate 3D tracking with ground penetrating radar, then turn the raw signals into rebar geometry you can act on straight away.
The process
GPR and lidar in a single handheld unit
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Roll the tracked unit across the surface. Ground penetrating radar, lidar and camera capture the structure together, at up to 500 m² per hour. The handheld scanner fuses ground-penetrating radar with LiDAR-based positioning. Every radar trace is registered to a millimetre-accurate point cloud as you sweep, so every reading knows where it came from.
Rebar detected and positioned while you scan
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The signals are fused and interpreted on board. No upload, no waiting for an office to process the raw data.
Diameter, cover and spacing, in the field
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Rebar position, cover and diameter appear as a 3D model with millimetre accuracy while you are still on site.
The full 3D model, in the field and back at the office
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Everything lands in one place in the cloud, and you decide who gets in. The structural engineer, the client and the contractor each get their own access and see exactly what you see. Nothing emailed around, no two versions in circulation. If someone needs the data inside their own software, it comes out in the formats their tools already read.
Under the hood
Three pieces of physics and maths make a non-destructive survey trustworthy.
Instead of reading peaks in a radar trace, we model the entire waveform and solve for the material properties that could have produced it. The method comes from seismic imaging in oil and gas, where it is used to reconstruct kilometres of rock, we apply it to centimetres of concrete.
The radar emits short electromagnetic pulses into the concrete. Every change in material (a steel bar, a void, a moisture front) reflects part of that pulse back. Travel time and shape of the reflection tell us depth and size, and millimetre-accurate 3D tracking ties every single trace to an exact position on the structure.
Models trained on field data from more than 70 projects separate rebar from noise, follow each bar through the volume and estimate diameter and cover automatically. The interpretation is consistent between operators, and the output is a structural model rather than an image someone has to read.