What Is SpatialSense?

2026-10-30

Somewhere on your site today, someone is taking a photograph that will be argued over at final account. It will prove that something happened, and nothing more: not where on the plan, not how much, not which revision of the drawing it was built against. That gap is where variations are born and where a payment claim turns into a dispute, and it is the gap SpatialSense was built to close.

SpatialSense is a construction progress monitoring platform made by Kodifly. It helps construction teams document and track site progress through 360° site walks, drone flights and laser scans. The visual records can be reviewed remotely and compared over time, in one browser with nothing to install. If you searched the name and landed here, the rest of this page is the plain answer: what it does, who uses it and who makes it.

What SpatialSense does, in five steps

It turns a site walk into a record that anyone can check from anywhere. The five steps are the same on every project, from a two-floor fit-out to a public-works site scanned round the clock.

Capture the site. The engineers already on site record a 360° walk with a helmet camera and the Trace app. A drone covers the earthworks or the roof, and a laser scanner or a fixed LiDAR station adds a measured point cloud where millimetres matter. Every capture is dated and pinned to the floor plan.
Compare two dates. Any two captures open side by side from the same viewpoint, with both panes locked together as you pan, so a progress claim can be checked against the record.
Check the build against the BIM model. The IFC model overlays the point cloud, and a deviation check at a set tolerance shows where the built work differs from the design. Flagged elements become issues.
Pin and assign issues. An issue is pinned to its position in the 360° image or the point cloud, with a photo, an owner, a due date and a status, and the site team answers it from the Konnect phone app. Every open item sits on the project's issue board and moves from To Do to Completed, so the task list lives next to the evidence instead of in a separate tracker.
Generate the progress report. From two dated walks, SpatialSense writes a station-by-station report of what changed and what did not, with each observation tied to the images it came from, and delivers it as a PDF ready to send to the client.

Everything SpatialSense does

The five steps are the spine of it. The full list is longer, and it is the reason site teams stop keeping a second tool for the data the first one could not hold. Most of the tools it is compared with are built around one capture type; SpatialSense takes all of them, on every plan, and then writes the report and sends the alert.

What goes in

Point clouds in E57, LAS, LAZ, PCD and PLY from any scanner: a handheld or tripod laser scanner, a drone survey, or a fixed LiDAR ScanStation that scans its zone every fifteen to thirty minutes with nobody on site. 360° walks from an Insta360 X4 or X5 on a helmet or a car, recorded with Trace and pinned to the plan as you go. BIM models as IFC, including Revit models exported to IFC. Floor plans as PDF, DWG or DXF. Photos, voice notes and issues from the Konnect phone app. And from scan or image data, SpatialSense generates a photoreal Gaussian splat of the site that streams in the browser and opens for anyone with the link.

What you see

All of it in one browser viewer, with the 360° spheres sitting over the point cloud and the BIM model overlaid on both. Any two dates open side by side from one viewpoint, and Time Compare on two point clouds gives cut, fill and volume change. You measure distances, heights and areas on the scan, cut width and height profiles and export them, and run a deviation check against the model at a tolerance you set. A georeferenced survey sits on the GIS map in real-world coordinates, so scans from different dates line up and every capture has a place on the map.

What the AI does

It sweeps a 360° walk for safety issues and road defects, draws a box around each one and waits for a person to accept or dismiss it before anything counts. From two dated walks it writes the progress report, station by station, with each finding tied to its images. It produces the site condition report with safety flags rated high, medium or low, the road condition report scored only from accepted defects, and a fire-safety report from the survey. On a fixed installation it checks each new scan against the BIM model as the scan arrives, and a live camera stream of the site runs alongside, which the AI watches too.

How the team works in it

An issue is pinned to the exact spot in the walk, the scan or the model, with a photo, an owner, a due date and a status, and every issue sits on one board. The person assigned gets a WhatsApp alert in their own language with the location already filled in, and answers from the Konnect app with text, a photo or a voice note, where issues update live during a walk. Anything in the project goes out as a share link that opens without a login and can be revoked later, so a client, a consultant or an inspector sees the site without an account. Comments sit on the 360° photos and on the point cloud, and the interface runs in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French and Spanish.

What it tracks

Assets as well as progress. Element follows every precast piece or modular unit from the yard to installed, scanned with a QR sticker at each step and shown live in 3D. A facility can be walked once and its building assets found and checked from the office. On a fixed installation the scans show how water will flow across the site, test barrier scenarios and show where rain will pond at each warning level. And because a scan is georeferenced, each asset is tracked by where it actually stands, not by a description of where it should be.

Who uses it

Government departments, contractors and consultants use SpatialSense across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America, in countries including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Canada and the United States. Arup, AECOM and Gammon Construction are among the users, along with Hong Kong government works departments and contractors in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. It has been deployed on more than 100 construction sites, and support comes in the local language where Kodifly has people on the ground. The longest-running deployment is a fixed LiDAR installation on a public-works site in Hong Kong, live for more than two years.

The people who open it most are project managers and site engineers who need to know where a site stands without driving there, and the clients and consultants who sign off progress they did not see in person.

What it replaces

On most projects the shared record is a photo pack: pictures pasted under headings in a weekly report, or sent on WhatsApp, chosen by whoever was holding the phone. Two weeks later nobody can say whether two of those pictures show the same bay, and by the time a claim is assessed the people who took them have moved to another job.

SpatialSense replaces the photo pack with a dated record of the whole site that anyone with a link can walk, compare and measure, and it generates the weekly report from the captures. It also replaces the separate task tracker. Issues raised on a walk, in a scan or against the model sit on one board with an owner, a due date and a status, and the site team works them from a phone.

What this looks like on a live site

In Lahore, on a residential tower with many structurally identical bays, the ground floor was walked on 29 July and again on 31 July. The two walks, forty-eight hours apart, were compared from one locked viewpoint, and the report that came back for Station D read: "Relocation and extension of green safety netting on the right side of the floor; the netting is now secured to a vertical pole framework closer to the central core. Staging of a vertical metal component within the doorway of the central concrete core." Nobody typed that. The system wrote it from the two captures, rated it Low, and linked every clause to the image it was read from, which is the difference between a report you can review and one you can only read. It was the contractor's second site on SpatialSense, run on the same camera and phone as the first.

In Islamabad, a thirty-week new build has a client whose chief architect reviews progress from Europe every week. Until recently that review rested on a photo report assembled by hand. Now the engineers already on site walk it with a phone and a 360° camera, so no survey crew is mobilised and no programme time is lost. Seven captures in twenty-four days carried the record from bare ground through rebar and steel columns to a full frame. The weekly coordination meeting runs against that record, and nobody has had to fly in to check it. More examples are in the case studies.

The SpatialSense products

Five products share one login and one record. Open any of them for the short version.

SpatialSense

The web platform, where every capture lands. Point clouds, 360° walks, drone surveys, BIM models, floor plans, Gaussian splats and documents sit in one project and open in one browser tab, with compare views, Time Compare, measurement, BIM deviation checks, AI analysis, the issue board, share links, WhatsApp alerts and the reports. It runs in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French and Spanish. The platform, feature by feature

Trace

The capture app for iOS and Android. Put an Insta360 X4 or X5 on a helmet and walk the floors, or on a car and drive the site roads. Trace pins every capture to the floor plan or the route, records without signal, and uploads to SpatialSense when there is one. Trace

SpatialSense Konnect

The phone app for the site team. See the issues that need you, reply with text, a photo or a voice note, and log new ones with the phone camera. It uses the same SpatialSense login, and access is set up after a demo. SpatialSense Konnect

SpatialSense Element

Precast tracking from yard to installed. Each precast piece in the IFC model gets a QR sticker. The crew scans it with the Element phone app to move it from Preparation to Shipping, Arrived and Installed, or Delayed, and managers see every piece live in 3D. SpatialSense Element

Lite Viewer

A free 3D viewer in the browser. Opens LAS, LAZ, PLY, IFC, GLB and Gaussian splat files one at a time, with no install and no account, and measuring and commenting are free. E57 scans and 360° walks open in the full platform. Lite Viewer

How SpatialSense compares with other tools

Teams weighing SpatialSense usually have two or three other progress-monitoring platforms and a scan viewer on the shortlist. Most of those tools do one thing well, and the differences below are the ones that decide the choice.

What SpatialSense offers that most others do not

The first difference is that everything a site produces lives in one project on every plan: the laser scan, the drone flight, the helmet walk, the BIM model, the floor plans, the documents and the issues raised against any of them, with nothing sold as an edition or an add-on. Most tools in this category are built around one capture type. A 360° photo platform adds scanners and drones as extra sources, a scan platform sells BIM and 360° capture as separate editions, and a scanner maker's platform is built around the data from its own scanners. The site team then keeps a second tool for the data the first one was not built for.

The second is a price you can read before you call anyone. Three per-site tiers are published, and every tier includes unlimited users, so the cost does not grow when the client's consultants, the subcontractor and the finance team all need to look. Most of the alternatives are priced by quote, on the construction volume of the project, on packages of panoramas and storage, or per user, and the number arrives after the call.

The third is that you can test it on your own data today: a 14-day self-serve trial on your own files, or 30 days free on one site after a demo, where some of the alternatives offer only a demo. Sharing is as open as the trial. Anyone you send a link to can open LAS, LAZ, PLY, IFC and GLB files in the free Lite Viewer without an account, whereas a desktop scan viewer usually needs the recipient to hold an account in the vendor's cloud, and an open-source viewer needs a server you host.

The fourth is the report. From two dated walks, SpatialSense writes a station-by-station progress report tied to the images it came from, as a PDF the client receives without anyone typing it. The fifth is where the help comes from: in the local language wherever Kodifly has people on the ground, and in the site team's time zone.

Who makes SpatialSense

SpatialSense is made by Kodifly Limited, a Hong Kong company founded by engineers from the University of Hong Kong and based at Hong Kong Science Park as an HKSTP incubatee, with local teams across Asia and the Middle East. The company has more than fifty people, more than forty of them in research and development. The same team builds the LiDAR and camera systems Kodifly ships for railways, which is why a laser scan is a first-class input in SpatialSense rather than an import from somewhere else.

Kodifly is a member of NVIDIA Inception and was placed in the programme's Top 20 in China. It came through the HK AI Lab accelerator, is an AWS partner, and counts Laidlaw Scholars Ventures as its seed investor. Its awards include the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Innovation Grand Prize, the 2024 Railway Technology Excellence Awards for safety and for product, and Best Digital Economy at X-Pitch Singapore. Before any of that, the founders' robotics team at HKU set the Guinness World Record for the fastest robotic fish, then broke it. The company's own line for all of it is: Capture. Understand. Take Action.

FAQ

What is SpatialSense?

Who makes SpatialSense?

SpatialSense is made by Kodifly Limited, a Hong Kong company based at Hong Kong Science Park and a member of NVIDIA Inception, with local teams across Asia and the Middle East.

What do I need to capture a site with SpatialSense?

A phone and a 360° camera, carried by the people already walking the site. Drones, laser scanners from any maker and fixed LiDAR stations can be added where the job calls for them. No survey crew is needed for a walk.

Does SpatialSense work with BIM?

Yes. BIM models in IFC format, including Revit models exported to IFC, overlay on the point cloud, and a deviation check shows where the built work differs from the design.

What file types does SpatialSense open?

Point clouds as E57, LAS, LAZ, PCD and PLY; BIM models as IFC; floor plans as PDF, DWG and DXF; 360° images; GLB meshes and Gaussian splats. LAS, LAZ, PLY, IFC, GLB and splat files also open free in the Lite Viewer with no account.

Does SpatialSense track assets as well as progress?

Yes. SpatialSense Element follows each precast piece or modular unit from the yard to installed with a QR sticker and a phone app, shown live in 3D. Building assets can be found and checked in a 360° walk from the office, and because scans are georeferenced, every asset is tracked by where it actually stands.

Where is SpatialSense used?

By government departments, contractors and consultants across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America, on more than 100 construction sites.

How does SpatialSense compare with other progress-monitoring tools?

Most progress-monitoring tools are built around one capture type and priced by quote. SpatialSense keeps 360° walks, drone flights, laser scans and BIM in one project on every plan, publishes its per-site prices with unlimited users on every tier, and offers a 14-day self-serve trial on your own files. Each tool it is usually weighed against has its own comparison page on this site.

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