Four systems down to one
Panoramas, oblique imagery and point clouds each had their own viewer. Now everything sits in the same environment, whoever captured it.
Access for the whole organisation
No licence per workstation. Anyone working on the public space can look and measure, in a browser, with nothing to install.
Faces blurred, objects detected
Faces and number plates are blurred automatically, and AI object detection pulls signs, lighting columns and other street furniture out of the imagery.
The municipality of Nijmegen reviewed its imagery in four separate systems. Panoramas in one, oblique imagery in another, point clouds somewhere else again. Every supplier brought its own viewer, its own credentials and its own way of working. Anyone wanting to assess a street first had to know who had captured it that year.
The heart of the solution is that the viewer is independent of who made the imagery. Nijmegen can keep tendering to whoever it likes, and the material always lands in the same environment. That is what vendor independent access means in practice: the municipality keeps control of its own data instead of being tied to the system of whichever party happened to drive the last round.
Before imagery becomes available, faces and number plates are detected and blurred automatically. That happens during processing rather than afterwards, so there is no moment at which unprocessed imagery circulates inside the organisation. On top of that, AI object detection extracts street furniture, signage and lighting columns for management and inventory work.
An asset manager who receives a report opens one environment and sees the street as it stood at the last capture, with the point cloud underneath to measure in. No more trip to site for a question that can be answered from a desk, and no more hunting for the right system. Expanding does not mean replacing the platform: new sources simply appear in the same viewer.
