Just image getting a complete digital twin captured in just 30 minutes. Potential applications might include complete renovation, heritage preservation, event planning, health and safety, and virtual 3D stadium tours. Extend those possibilities into manufacturing facility design, aerospace or marine interior design, and much more. This is the potential. 

Mounting the versatile Artec Jet to a backpack allows you to capture wider environments as fast as you can explore them. Simply walk your site, close the loop, and Artec Twins will generate a virtual replica for visualization and analysis. You can also deploy other Artec 3D scanners including Artec Ray II inside scenes and combine datasets for higher accuracy where you need it. Artec Jet is a high-speed simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) LiDAR mapping system used to fully capture large-scale environments, industrial facilities, and more providing survey-grade accuracy, which is commonly accepted to be 1mm or less. 

Since its opening days, Fluor Field has played host to Greenville Drive, a South Atlantic League affiliate for the Boston Red Sox. The baseball field was built to replicate the dimensions of Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox. The ground even features its own version of the iconic “Green Monster” field wall.

Maintaining the South Carolina stadium is no mean feat. New seating, lighting, and concourse amenities are constantly being rolled out to improve the fan experience. Ground staff need to contend with a busy schedule, as well as tight construction timelines. Renovation can also be complicated by a lack of as-built data – existing designs may not reflect reality after 20 years.

Digitizing the Stadium

An ideal situation would have the site empty, removing troublesome moving objects from the scene, but Fluor Field is a hive of activity between games, as staff, mowers, and sprinklers continue working around the clock. Fortunately, Artec Ambassador, Digitize Designs, knew that the Artec Jet could be deployed by hand, backpack, pole, cage, vehicle, robot, or even a drone. They decided that walking through the grounds with Jet attached to a backpack proved to be the most straightforward option.

Artec 3D scanning expert Nolan Doktor started at the exterior, then proceeded inside to capture the seating, boxes, balconies, and the labyrinth of rooms in Fluor Field’s interior. Jet’s 984-ft range and equipped GoPro enabled him to scan a whole scoreboard on the “Green Monster” wall from ground level in full color, as well as background advertising and other buildings. To minimize exposure to the stadium’s sprinklers, Doktor hopped onto a Gator vehicle that was mowing the pitch, allowing for a quick loop around the perimeter and full area capture. Artec Jet is IP65-rated, so it can withstand harsh conditions like rain—or sprinklers.

The scanned data was then transferred to Artec Twins to process the information. Artec Twins comes with the tools needed for dynamic visualization and analysis. The software renders huge environments at high speed, allowing users to instantly review data, traverse captured point clouds, and toggle between height, color, trajectory, capture time, and orientation overlays.

According to Doktor, “By using the platform’s elevation filters, it was possible to identify individual rooms and capture complete as-built floorplans for use cases like interior design, renovation, or safety planning.” Because Artec Jet also works with real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning as well as ground control points (GCPs), which act like targets in handheld 3D scanning, it can focus in on certain floors.

To collect finer details, the team could have used Artec’s Ray II, a 0.075-inch accuracy tripod-mountable LiDAR scanner for critical areas like doors, windows, and intersections. But in this case, Jet was more than up to the job. Panoramic 360^o color capture ensured areas ranging from entry gates to a gift shop and a child’s play area were digitized with incredible fidelity.

With Fluor Field actually renovated ahead of the current season, it was clear that Artec Jet had an important role in the project. Having the data will also play in future infrastructure projects. Capturing as-built surfaces is vital to maintenance and renovation since historic buildings typically have no floor plans. Artec scans reduce the need for manual measurement and minimize the potential for human error. 

For example, in the case of Fluor Field, if they were tasked with expanding capacity architects could overlay proposed section layouts onto Jet point clouds and verify sightlines or structural clearances without a single return visit. The same applies to door widths and ceiling heights with concourse renovations. Even a scoreboard or lighting retrofit becomes simpler when engineers can confirm mounting points, and cable runs against existing infrastructure in Artec Twins.

Jet’s 30-minute capture window means that data can be gathered between games if necessary. With Artec Twins’ Gaussian Splatting functionality generating lifelike visuals from the same dataset, applications extend into heritage preservation and virtual fan experiences too. 

For information: 

Artec

Artec Jet 

Digitize Design

Fluor Field