Facts

• Company: Emesent
• Product type: Autonomy Mapping Payload
• Status: launched
• Website: https://www.emesent.com/emesent-product/hovermap-series/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Hovermap is Emesent SLAM-based lidar mapping system for drones, vehicles, backpacks and handheld use. It captures 3D data in GPS-denied environments such as mines, tunnels, industrial plants and infrastructure sites.

Overview

Hovermap is Emesent SLAM-based lidar mapping system for drones, vehicles, backpacks and handheld use. It captures 3D data in GPS-denied environments such as mines, tunnels, industrial plants and infrastructure sites.

Market context

Hovermap is Emesent’s LiDAR mapping and autonomy payload family for high-density 3D capture in GPS-denied and hard-to-access environments.

• Target environment: Mines, tunnels, industrial assets, infrastructure, construction sites and other indoor or GPS-denied spaces.
• Workflow context: Captures SLAM-based point clouds from drones, handheld operation, backpacks, vehicles and ground robots, with live point-cloud preview.
• Customer context: Survey teams, mining operators, AEC firms, industrial inspection teams and robotics integrators needing mobile reality capture.
• Deployment model: Commercial sensor/autonomy payload family with multiple mounting modes and Emesent software ecosystem.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial product family with published product pages and ST/ST-X brochure.
• Adoption constraints: Output quality depends on scan planning, environment, mounting mode and downstream processing; ST/ST-X variants should be compared against the relevant model datasheet.
• Market position: Reference LiDAR-SLAM payload for drone-based and ground-based mapping in inaccessible environments.
• Adjacent products: Flyability Elios 3, ExynAero, Ouster lidar systems

Audience

Inspectors

Workflow

Captures SLAM-based point clouds from drones, handheld operation, backpacks, vehicles and ground robots, with live point-cloud preview.

Capability

Lidar Mapping, GPS-denied operation

Deployment environment

Mines, tunnels, industrial assets, infrastructure, construction sites and other indoor or GPS-denied spaces.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Inspectors
• Workflow: Captures SLAM-based point clouds from drones, handheld operation, backpacks, vehicles and ground robots, with live point-cloud preview.
• Capability: Lidar Mapping, GPS-denied operation
• Deployment environment: Mines, tunnels, industrial assets, infrastructure, construction sites and other indoor or GPS-denied spaces.

Specifications

• LIDAR Range: up to 300 m
• Capture Rate: more than 1 million points per second
• Mapping Mode: AI-powered autonomous mapping for GPS-denied environments
• Deployment Modes: Drone-mounted, handheld, backpack, vehicle and ground-robot-mounted scanning
• Live Point Cloud: Live point-cloud stream to Hovermap app when in communication range

Tags

• Peer Group: Lidar Sensor, Perception Sensor, Lidar Systems
• Workflow: Industrial inspection
• Capability: Lidar Mapping, GPS-denied operation
• Stack Layer: Sensing layer
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2024-02-08 - Partnership - Emesent integrates Hovermap with Freefly Astro drone - Emesent announced support for Hovermap integration with the American-made Freefly Astro drone.
• 2022-02-28 - Product Launch - Emesent launches Hovermap ST autonomous LiDAR mapping payload - Emesent launched Hovermap ST as the latest version of its Hovermap autonomy and mapping payload.
• 2021-04-19 - Research Publication - Heterogeneous Ground and Air Platforms, Homogeneous Sensing: Team CSIRO Data61's Approach to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge - The paper describes Team CSIRO Data61 systems fielded a…
• 2020-01-01 - Research Publication - Applications for the Hovermap autonomous drone system in underground mining operations - The paper covers applications for the Hovermap autonomous drone system in underground mining o…

Comparable Systems

• Hovermap ST-X - Emesent - Autonomy Mapping Payload
• OS0 Rev7 LiDAR Sensor - Ouster - Component Family
• Atlas Ultra 4D LiDAR - Aeva Technologies - Component
• Apollo 4Sight Flex LiDAR - AEye Inc - Component
• JT16 Mini 3D LiDAR - Hesai Technology - Component
• E1R Robotics LiDAR - RoboSense - Component