Emesent, an autonomous mapping and robotics company, announced at INTERGEO 2026, the world’s leading annual conference for geospatial technology, that it has integrated its mobile Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) scanners with Trimble Business Centre software and the Trimble Connect collaboration platform.
The integration enables direct transfer of scanning and survey data from Emesent’s high-accuracy mobile SLAM scanners into Trimble Connect, which extends the use of the Emesent data in Trimble’s construction management suite of solutions, including Trimble Business Centre, Tekla Structures building information modelling (BIM) software and Trimble SketchUp 3D modelling software.
Emesent’s two award-winning scanners are included within this integration: Emesent GX1, one of the world’s most accurate integrated mobile SLAM and Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) scanners, and Emesent Hovermap STX, a versatile mapping system designed for drone-based surveying, autonomous inspection, using SLAM-based LiDAR mapping. Both are built on the same underlying SLAM technology, proven across the world’s most challenging environments, from underground mines to GPS-denied spaces, to everyday surveying applications like infrastructure inspection and terrain mapping applications.
Emesent’s integration with Trimble: A true capture, connect and create pipeline
The integration of Emesent’s scanner-collected data into Trimble Connect enables end-users across surveying, engineering, construction, architecture and beyond to leverage accurate spatial data captured through Emesent’s mature, field-proven SLAM technology.
Creating a true ‘capture, connect and create’ pipeline, raw scan data goes in and clean point clouds come out, which get fed directly into BIM models, as-builts and digital twins within Trimble Connect and Trimble Business Centre.
- Reliable results, every single time: End-users can rely on Emesent GX1 to deliver 5-10mm global accuracy with unconstrained SLAM, or 15mm global accuracy with RTK/PPK time and time again. They can also georeference data with GX1’s inbuilt premium RTK/PPK receiver or pair a Hovermap STX with Trimble’s GNSS System for RTK-validated accuracy at the point of capture.
- Interoperability for a seamless workflow: Once captured, the data is processed in Emesent’s Aura Cloud, a cloud-hosted 3D data sharing and visualisation platform, generating dense, georeferenced point clouds that flow straight into Trimble Connect and Trimble Business Centre with no exports or cumbersome workarounds required.
- Generate value, across teams and projects: With captured Emesent point cloud data available in Trimble Connect, users can build deliverables, collaborate and share via their existing standardised workflows.
“This integration brings the power of our proven SLAM-based scanning technology into Trimble’s industry-leading geospatial data management and collaboration software,” said Ryan Palfrey, Director of Product at Emesent. “From the Trimble ecosystem, we’re eager to see how end-users leverage our solutions to plug seamlessly into their workflows and turn jobs, in even the most challenging sites, into standard surveying deliverables.”
“Emesent has enabled their high-quality SLAM data to integrate with Trimble Connect and Trimble Business Centre,” said Tim Lemmon, Senior Marketing Director, Geospatial at Trimble. “Trimble Connect is an extensible platform that is the gateway to the Trimble ecosystem, opening opportunities to integrate and extract full value from Emesent data within Trimble workflows.”
