Mobile & Handheld Scanning
A scanner carried through the space rather than set on a tripod, building the cloud as it moves. It is built around speed and coverage — a whole floor plate walked in the time a tripod covers a few rooms.
- What it costs
- Quoted per scope
- Also called
- mobile SLAM scanning · SLAM scanning · mobile 3D scanning · wearable laser scanning · handheld scanner · mobile mapping · walk-through scanning
Where it earns its keep
Use it for these.
If your problem is “i need a big interior scanned fast,” this is the answer.
- Large or connected interiors — warehouses, industrial floors, long corridors
- Existing-condition documentation across a whole building at once
- Point clouds on a repeating cadence, where the same route is walked again
- Getting through an occupied building without shutting it down
Don’t use it for this
Critical geometry and congested MEP zones, where the intended use calls for a more deliberate static capture. The answer is often both — walk the building, set the tripod where it matters.
We put this on every service page because the fastest way to waste your money is to buy the impressive tool instead of the correct one. If the row above describes your job, say so on the call and we’ll point you at the right one — including when it’s cheaper than this.
Find the right one by problem →What you receive
And what it opens in.
- Processed mobile point-cloud dataset
- Agreed file format, chosen against the downstream workflow
- Defined project coverage and extents
- Project metadata: capture dates, areas and routes covered, units, file manifest
- Processing notes: coverage limitations and known inaccessible areas
Included every time
Formats
E57 · LAS
Format is agreed against what you do with the data next — these are the ones this service commonly delivers in, not a promise of every format on every project. Delivered to a shared project folder anyone on the job can open: no accounts, no per-seat charge, and if you leave, the record leaves with you.
The boundary
Where this scope ends.
Options on this scope
- Imagery captured alongside the scan where the system supports it
- Hosted or viewer access
- Additional point-cloud formats
- Alignment to your project coordinate system
A separate Kinetic service
- 3D Laser ScanningThe deliberate static capture, for the zones where the intended use asks for it. Hybrid scopes run both.
- Scan-to-CAD & Measured DrawingsDrawings drafted from the walk.
- 3D ModelingGeometry built from the same cloud.
- Scan-to-BIMA structured model, where the mobile data suits the modelling requirement.
Not something Kinetic does
- Licensed surveying of any kind
- Engineering interpretation of what the data shows
- Design services
- Compliance or code certification
- Anything requiring a professional stamp
Where a project needs one of these, we say so and point you at someone licensed to do it.
Before we can price it
What we’d ask you.
Kinetic confirms the scope with you before anything is scheduled. None of it is a form to fill in — it is what the conversation covers.
- What will this data be used for?
- Does the whole building need covering, or specific areas?
- Will this be captured once, or repeatedly?
- Is anything in here that has to be documented more deliberately than the rest?
What changes the size of the job
- Total area
- Number of levels
- Route complexity and connectivity
- Access restrictions and available working hours
- Active operations on site
- Capture frequency where the work repeats
- Required deliverables and downstream use
- Schedule
Useful to have, none of it required to start
- Project location
- Total area and number of floors
- Which areas are to be captured
- Indoor, outdoor or both
- Intended use of the data
- Desired output
- Access hours and site conditions
- Whether the space is occupied or has moving equipment
- Capture frequency, if this is to repeat
What this runs with.
All services →3D Laser Scanning
The deliberate static method, for the zones where the downstream use asks for it. Hybrid scopes run both.
Quoted per scope360° Construction Documentation
A photographic walkthrough of the same route, pinned to the plan.
Available within Kinetic programs and qualifying project scopesScan-to-BIM
What the cloud becomes once somebody has to build against it.
Quoted per scopeScan-to-CAD & Measured Drawings
Drawings off the same walk, when plans are the deliverable and a model is not.
Custom scope · technical review
Tell us the job. We’ll tell you if this is the right tool for it.
Send the project — an address, a schedule, or just what you’re trying to document. A person reads it and comes back with an approach and a price.
Scope your project