Technology

How the accuracy actually gets there


Four capabilities, each with the same job: put a known position on a moving thing, and keep it known.

01

GNSS RTK


A base station on a known point, a rover on the thing you care about, and a correction stream between them. Everything else we sell is a variation on that sentence.

We supply the Spherefix base, rover and data collector as a matched set, so the correction chain is ours end to end rather than three vendors pointing at each other.

Spherefix GNSS rover on a survey pole resting on a pickup tailgate, over a wet earthworks site, with the yellow Spherefix case in the truck bed

02

Machine guidance


Guidance shows the operator where the tool is against the design. Control moves the tool to the design. XFIX EX30 does the first on excavators; Spherefix Machine Control does the second across a fleet.

Both are only as good as the surface loaded into them, which is why the data prep is not an add-on service here.

XFIX EX30 excavator guidance instrument held in one hand, showing the GNSS dome, status lights and the triple-magnet base

03

Automated mobile survey


A rover measures one point at a time, and a person walking is the slow part. So we built mounts — 3D-printed in-house — that put the same rover on a remote-control chassis for open ground, and on a legged robot for ground that defeats wheels.

The accuracy chain is unchanged. Only the walking is gone.

RC chassis and legged robot, both carrying rover mounts

04

LiDAR


Where a surface needs describing rather than sampling, the same platforms carry a LiDAR payload and return a point cloud instead of a list of shots.

Deliverables and accuracy figures for this line are still being finalised.

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Point cloud coloured by elevation, on black