The Cintoo Solution

Cintoo Cloud is a cloud-based Reality Data management and collaboration platform. By transforming large point cloud data into 3D meshes, the data is now shareable, collaborative, and distributable with clients, contractors and your own teams.

The point cloud data can then be manipulated in 3D by anyone equipped with a standard laptop and a WebGL browser.​ Cintoo Cloud is available on Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services, or can be deployed on private data centers behind secured firewalls.

Cintoo Connect is a Windows client that connects desktops to Cintoo Cloud. From desktop to cloud, it is used for scan project translation into Cintoo Reality Data and for fast upload to Cintoo Cloud. From cloud to desktop, Cintoo Connect will download Cintoo Reality Data and inversely translate it into point cloud data for consumption by most CAD software.

Transforming Point Cloud to Surfaces

Cintoo has developed a unique point cloud-to-surface, surface-to point cloud technology (US patent pending). This translation keeps the project structure (scanning position, panoramic views), has no limit in terms of project size, and does not compromise the survey-grade accuracy of the source data. By translating to surfaces, laser scan panoramas are not only viewed as images with depth, but as 3D models as well.

With this new type of Reality Data, the upload and download times and the need for storage space are reduced since this surface-based Reality Data is 10 to 20 times lighter than the source point cloud!

Fast Mesh Streaming in Web Browsers

Once uploaded to the cloud, Cintoo’s multi-resolution and compressed Reality Data can be streamed very fast based on the user’s point of view in Cintoo Cloud’s proprietary viewer. This viewer runs on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge (V79 or higher) without any plug-in required. This fast mesh streaming technology make the scan data easily available on any laptop / desktop, tablet / smartphones (iOS, Android) or Virtual Reality headsets (Oculus Rift or Rift S, HTC Vive Pro).

Convert Surfaces Back to Point Clouds

Cintoo can also revert surfaces back into point clouds with the same accuracy as the original point cloud source file that was uploaded. Cintoo Reality Data will first be downloaded and then be transformed back into Autodesk ReCap RCP format for consumption by Autodesk AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, or in E57 format for use in any other CAD and Scan-to-BIM software.

The Cintoo Unified Mesh

Cintoo Cloud can merge the various high-resolution meshes coming from each scan into a single mesh, leveraging the power of cloud computing. This unification process will take the best contribution of each scan for each area of the project and will add the photo-texture to the resulting Unified Mesh. The user will need to select the mesh density and export format (OBJ, FBX, STL) prior to running the process. Once completed, the user is being notified by email that the Unified Mesh is ready for download.

Unified Meshes retain the original point cloud's 3D coordinate system, are smaller in size than the source point cloud, and remove the ambiguity of identifying surfaces or objects from disconnected 3D points. The mesh’s connected structure makes processing times much faster, provides more robust results and offer greater scalability.

BIM Platform Interoperability

BIM 360 interoperability extends the scan and BIM capabilities by enabling you to push RVT, NWD, 3D DWG, JT and IFC from BIM 360 to Cintoo Cloud and compare these models with scan data. Once issues have been detected and documented in Cintoo Cloud, they can be pushed to BIM 360 for your project coordination.

Create notes or issues in Cintoo Cloud by comparing your as-builts with the BIM design and push those issues to Procore a ‘Observations’. You can then process them as ‘field’ or ‘model’ issues. From within Procore, you can also view each issue in the as-built context by clicking on the embedded Cintoo Cloud hyperlink.

Make your laser scans part of your BIM coordination! Create notes or issues in Cintoo Cloud by viewing or analyzing your laser scans, or by comparing your scans to your BIM model. Push/sync those notes and issues to/with BIM Track for global tracking and BIM project coordination. Update, comment, assign these notes or issues as needed.

Hardware & Software Agnostic

Registration of the source laser scans can happen in any point cloud software. Cintoo Connect will then import these structured scan projects using E57, Autodesk RCP or Faro FLS / LSPROJ format. Once processed and translated in Cintoo format, the project is then uploaded to Cintoo Cloud. E57 and RCP / RCS formats are available as export formats when reverting Reality Data back into point cloud format.

Single Sign On (SSO)

Keep your users secure by implementing your corporate Single Sign On (SSO) as Cintoo Cloud authentication. You then make sure that your users comply with your own corporate password policy. SSO implementation is available as an option with an additional one-time fee.

Public & Hybrid Cloud Models

Cintoo provides flexibility around cloud options, and gives you the option to host your data on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the two largest providers of cloud services globally.

You can select the data center geography where your data will be hosted for privacy requirements or let the data be hosted anywhere in the cloud to improve streaming performances. You can also choose from several government-authorized datacenters that meet the US government’s strict regulatory, security and compliance requirements and are designed to host sensitive workloads in the cloud.

Cintoo Cloud is also available in an hybrid model, with all customer files hosted on customer’s own instances of AWS or Azure.

Cintoo SDK

Using the Cintoo SDK, you can stream Cintoo Cloud’s high-resolution, mesh-based scan data into any desktop or web app. The SDK is available with C, C++ or C# APIs. It includes authentication to Cintoo Cloud and project, Work Zone or scan selection. For example, using Cintoo SDK with Unity or Unreal game engines, you can create rich, immersive and collaborative Scan & BIM or Scan & CAD experiences: simulations, clearance checking, project review , team training… You may start from Cintoo plugin for Unreal Editor for a fast implementation using the Unreal Engine.

Cybersecurity

Cintoo is SOC2 Type 1 compliant and on the way to the SOC2 Type 2 compliancy, demonstrating that our process is highly secure. This encompasses the way we develop the software, train our team, segment the information, and control the publishing process. The examination into Cintoo Cloud was conducted by a renown US-based auditor in accordance with American attestation standards and recommendations (AICPA, IAASB). As part of this SOC2 compliancy, we also only use SOC2 Type 2 suppliers, such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.

Furthermore, we perform penetration testing regularly to assure our clients that their data is cyber secure. We use a specialized company whose experts try to hack our system every six months. At the end of the test, we are provided with a report to confirm that, despite trying by all means to hack our system, they were unable to do so.

Both of these SOC2 Type 1 and Pen Test reports can be provided to our customers’ IT teams upon signing an NDA.