Industrial plants often consist of a multitude of different buildings and structures – such as production halls, logistics areas, technical systems, and other infrastructure elements.
Obtaining a holistic overview of their condition is therefore often challenging. Diverse construction types, vast areas, and complex system architectures make comprehensive data collection difficult.
To add to this, existing as-built documentation is frequently incomplete, outdated, or inconsistent. Information is scattered across various sources, limiting its analysis potential.
Inspections are largely manual and time-consuming. Hard-to-reach areas in particular require additional measures such as drones, aerial work platforms, or demanding physical walk-throughs. At the same time, analog workflows and a lack of digital infrastructure mean that captured data can only be utilized to a limited extent.
In practice, this means:
The actual state of the assets is often only partially known.
Decisions regarding operations, maintenance, and optimization are based on a fragmented data foundation.
Our approach to structural data acquisition
HydroMapper creates a complete and consistent data foundation for industrial plants.
By leveraging advanced surveying technologies, facilities are captured efficiently and comprehensively. We focus particularly on the following methods:
Drones for rapid mapping of large areas and hard-to-reach locations
Mobile mapping systems for efficient capturing of complex plant structures
Static and mobile laser scanners for high-precision 3D data
360-degree cameras for complete visual documentation of indoor environments
This results in a seamless digital twin of the entire plant, integrating all relevant structural and asset information.
With HydroMapper's long-standing experience in capturing complex infrastructure, we ensure that data collection is precisely tailored to the requirements of operations, analysis, and downstream processing.
Added value for operations and maintenance
A comprehensive mapping of industrial facilities establishes a whole new level of data quality.
The high-resolution 3D data provides a consistent, clear overview of the entire plant. Complex structures are rendered understandable and straightforward to analyze.
HydroMapper bridges the gap between data acquisition and structured data management, enabling:
a centralized and interoperable data foundation for all project stakeholders
effortless data enrichment, e.g., by integrating on-site photos and documentation
transparent, audit-proof documentation of plant conditions and their evolution over time
Based on precise elevation data, we can also support further analyses—for example, in drainage planning.
In practice, this means:
Maintenance and repair measures can be planned proactively and prioritized systematically. Unplanned downtimes are reduced and outages minimized – a crucial economic factor in industrial plants, where downtime generates significant costs.
Budgets can be planned more reliably and measures implemented more efficiently. At the same time, collaboration with construction contractors and other stakeholders is greatly simplified, as everyone works on the same, consistent data foundation.
A real-world example
Traffic and Parking Areas Bremerhaven
Digital wayfinding in a complex structure
System
Digital Structural Inspection
Condition Assessment
Digital inventory mapping and AI-powered damage analysis of a 75,000 m² traffic and parking area at the Bremerhaven automotive logistics center
