To improve the efficiency in site walks using a 360-degree camera.
Make Good Use of Your Time on Site Walks
By Jianpeng Deng
Updated on 23/10/2021
What is a 360 camera?
“A 360 camera is a device with 180-degree forward- and rear-facing lenses that captures everything around itself at once. In a stills photography application, you can use it to shoot everything that can be seen from a particular point…” (definition from digitalcameraworld.com)
Types of 360 cameras
Plug to phone
Standalone
Professional
Compare and Contrast
Traditional way of photo taking on site
Do you ever have the experience that…
You walk into a site with many rooms and take hundreds of photos of them from different angles to ensure you won’t miss a spot.
But when you get back to the office and try to pick a decent photo to finish up your report, you realise that you just can’t find one and then you sit there surrounded by sadness.
Let’s do a little math here…
Imagine you are taking site photos of a 9m x 7m x 2.4m high room with a traditional camera:
-Walk around to find photo-taking spots.
-Approximately 10 photos to take for the room.
-Approximately 1 min for the whole process.
A little math continues…
Imagine you are taking site photos of a 9m x 7m x 2.4m high room with a 360 camera:
-Walk in the centre of the room.
-Approximately 1 photo to take for the room.
-Approximately 10 seconds for the whole process.
Recommendation
QooCam 8K
Hardware features:
-It looks fairly professional (you don’t want to carry a funky camera into a worksite)
-Small and convenient
-20 Megapixel (good picture quality)
-Not too expensive
QooCam 8K
Software features:
-Easily download from the website and app store
-You can process photos on phones, tablets and computers
-Easy to use
Upsides and Downsides
Upsides
Save your time walking around sites to take photos.
Spending less time on one site means you can do more site walks in a day.
All spots are captured.
Downsides
It is an extra cost (ranging from $150 – $1,500)
360-degree image is not a normal image, which requires specific software to process (some basic computing knowledge is required)