Backpack RTK Context

Market context

Hovermap Backpack is a backpack-mounted deployment mode for Emesent Hovermap mobile mapping.

  • Target environment: Industrial, mining, AEC and infrastructure sites where a walking scan is preferable to drone or vehicle deployment.
  • Workflow context: Allows operators to collect LiDAR-SLAM point clouds while walking through assets, using the broader Hovermap mapping workflow.
  • Customer context: Surveyors, mine-mapping teams, AEC reality-capture teams and inspection contractors.
  • Deployment model: Accessory/deployment configuration within the Hovermap product ecosystem.
  • Commercial maturity: Publicly listed Hovermap deployment option and accessory pathway.
  • Adoption constraints: Not a separate aircraft; compare it as a mounting/deployment configuration for Hovermap rather than as an independent sensor platform.
  • Market position: Useful alternative capture mode for Hovermap users standardizing one scanner across several access methods.
  • Adjacent products: Emesent Hovermap, Emesent Hovermap ST-X, handheld SLAM scanners

Audience

Inspectors

Workflow

Allows operators to collect LiDAR-SLAM point clouds while walking through assets, using the broader Hovermap mapping workflow.

Deployment environment

Industrial, mining, AEC and infrastructure sites where a walking scan is preferable to drone or vehicle deployment.

Specifications

  • Dimensions Mm: 500 × 370 × 230 mm
  • Weight: 4.0 kg empty
  • Ingress Protection: Designed to IP65
  • Scanner Compatibility: Hovermap ST and Hovermap STX
  • GNSS Compatibility: Emlid, Trimble, and Leica supported receiver families
  • System Type: Wearable LiDAR mobile mapping configuration
  • Positioning: RTK/PPK georeferencing combined with SLAM
  • Mapping Modes: Outdoor RTK/PPK and indoor or GPS-denied SLAM mapping
  • Use Cases: As-builts, Scan to BIM, topographic survey, tunnels, sewers and culverts

Tags

  • Peer Group: Personnel-carried LiDAR mapping systems
  • Workflow: Industrial inspection
  • Capability: LiDAR mapping, GPS-denied operation
  • Stack Layer: LiDAR sensor hardware
  • Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Comparable Systems

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