AI that turns point clouds into finished CAD plans
For surveying firms: street point clouds from mobile mapping and laser scanning become verified CAD geometry – without weeks of manual evaluation.
Manual evaluation is the bottleneck
Laser scanners and mobile mapping capture a street in a few hours. The real effort begins afterward in the office: point by point, guardrails, road markings, lane edges, walls, and fences are searched for in the point cloud and traced as lines in CAD.
A project covering 50 km of road requires 1,000–1,250 working hours, or €160,000–200,000. That equals several months of full-time work for one evaluator.
20–25 hrs. Manual evaluation per kilometer, roughly 3 working days
€160 Billing rate, typical hourly rate
€3,200–4,000 Evaluation cost per kilometer
Your Benefits
More Capacity
take on new projects without hiring additional drafters.
Faster Delivery
hand over finished plans to your client earlier.
Consistent Quality
every result is completed, checked, and approved against agreed criteria.
Your Client Stays Your Client
we deliver to your office, not to the road operator.
How It Works
Upload
Upload point cloud data (LAS, LAZ, E57) from mobile mapping or laser scanning to the cloud platform via your browser. The coordinate reference is preserved; you define which object classes are evaluated.
AI Recognition
The AI recognizes the approved object classes, such as guardrails, road markings, and lane edges, and derives position-accurate geometry from them (target: within 5 cm). Areas with low recognition confidence are flagged.
Completion & Review
In the Full-Service option, Jaroona specialists complete and review hidden or uncertain areas and accept the result according to the agreed quality criteria.
CAD Delivery
You receive DXF files with 3D polylines, separated by object class or layer, ready to use directly in your CAD environment. BIM/IFC output will follow in a later expansion.
Full-Service – a reviewed and accepted result for the agreed class scope. You receive finished CAD plans.
AI-only – an automatic result with an uncertainty report showing where review is recommended. Completion and review are handled by your office.
What the AI Recognizes Today
Survey2CAD detects roadside infrastructure in the point cloud and delivers it as geometrically accurate lines in the form of 3D polylines – each within 5 cm.
Guardrails and Guardrail Posts
Course of the rail top edge as a 3D polyline, posts as points along the axis. First wave – from January 2027.
Road Markings
Edge, guide, and barrier lines as well as lane markings as lines, separated by marking type. First wave – from January 2027.
Road Edges
Continuous edge lines along the entire route, including where markings are interrupted. First wave – from January 2027.
Concrete Barriers
Base line and top edge as two 3D polylines. Second wave – during 2027.
Noise Barriers and Fences
Course along the road as a 3D polyline, separated into wall and fence. Second wave – during 2027.
Applications
Survey2CAD starts with roads and grows on the same platform into further infrastructure areas – one upload path, one output format, one point of contact.
Roads – in production
Evaluation of road point clouds from mobile mapping and laser scanning: guardrails, pavement markings, concrete barriers, noise barriers, fences and road edges, delivered as 3D polylines in DXF. Regular operation from 2027.
Building facades – next
Next on the same platform: derivation of facade geometry such as building edges, facade surfaces and openings from the point cloud for as-built plans.
Rail – in development
In development, on the same platform: track axes, platform edges and overhead line masts from rail point clouds.
How a pilot project works
A pilot project shows you the benefits using your own data – without changing your workflow.
Send a data set
You send us a road section as a point cloud (LAS, LAZ, E57), ideally a few kilometers, for which you already have your own analysis. Together we define which object classes will be analyzed.
We analyze
We analyze the agreed object classes and deliver DXF with 3D polylines – as a full-service (verified result) or AI-only (with an uncertainty report), depending on your preference.
You compare
You place our result next to your own analysis and assess positional accuracy (target: within 5 cm), completeness, and time savings against your criteria.
Your Data
Point clouds contain project and client data from your office – we handle it accordingly.
Processing in your region
Your data is processed and stored in a data center in your region – for customers in the EU, exclusively on servers in the EU.
Encrypted
Transmission and storage are encrypted.
Confidential & purpose-bound
Only the project team has access; your data is used only for your engagement and is not shared with third parties.
Deletion on request
After project completion, we delete your data upon request; a data processing agreement under applicable data protection law (e.g., GDPR) is provided.
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AI that turns point clouds into finished CAD plans.
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