Sodex Innovations, an Austrian-based specializing in construction surveying technologies, says its new SDX-4DVision System can turn your earthmoving equipment into a surveying device.
Using cameras, laser scanning technology and AI data processing, the machine-mounted terrain mapping system creates as-built documentation in real-time while the machines are working.
Millions of measurements taken per minute are used to build a point cloud. The data is then uploaded to SDX Cloud, Sodex’s cloud solution, where project stakeholders can instantly track stockpile quantities, jobsite progress and more.
The system was demonstrated on a Link-Belt excavator at the recent Trimble Dimensions user conference in Las Vegas, where Sodex showcased how the SDX-4DVision system could track where utilities were being installed.
The Austrian-based company used the event to launch its business operations in North America. To see the SDX-4DVision system in action, check out the video above with Sodex CTO Maximilian Fenkart.
Automating traditional surveying processes eliminates the need for a surveyor and eases project documentation, billing and project analysis, the company says, as all necessary project data is recorded in the background during the excavation work.
The system uses the GNSS and IMUs already on the machine and can be retrofitted to any brand or size machine. It is fully integrated with Trimble Earthworks and operators can use their existing Trimble Earthworks tablet to control it, Fenkart says.
SDX-4DVision has already been tested and sold in Europe. Fenkart expects it to be available to the North American market within a couple of months.
“There’s going to be a lot coming in the future as well that we’re doing with Trimble,” says Fenkart. “We’re adding integrations into Trimble Business Center and WorksManager to get your data to programs you’re already using even faster and also adding more features for the operator, so he also has value from the real-time data we capture with this machine."
Sodex was recently named as one of three winners of the inaugural Hitachi Construction Machinery Challenge, where startups pitched technology ideas for potential collaboration. Sodex will join the manufacturer at bauma 2025 and discuss a pilot integration.
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