Tracking Construction Projects with a Panoramic View: The Key Advantage of Wide-Angle Images

In the construction sector, where monitoring and documenting each phase of a project is essential, the use of cameras capable of delivering wide-angle panoramic images—like the Enlaps Tikee range—is revolutionary. These cameras not only capture high-quality images but also maximize the visual coverage of a site. Here's why and how wide-angle cameras are transforming project monitoring.

Unmatched Field of View for Optimal Monitoring

With their dual wide-angle sensors, Tikee 4 cameras offer a 220° horizontal field of view (HFOV), making them ideal for covering large areas. This extended coverage provides several key benefits:

• Monitoring Large Sites: Perfect for complex projects like industrial buildings, bridges, or public infrastructure.

• Reducing the Number of Cameras: A single wide-angle camera covers a larger area compared to a conventional camera, reducing costs and simplifying installation.

• Proximity to the Subject: Unlike conventional cameras, wide-angle cameras require less distance to cover a large area, allowing closer installation—particularly useful in urban environments with limited installation space.

  
  

Comprehensive Visual Documentation

Thanks to their panoramic lenses, cameras like the Tikee 4 produce high-resolution images (6K), enabling detailed documentation of project progress. This is essential for:

• Project Progress Documentation: Images capture the linear evolution of the construction site. Automatic and regular uploads to the myTikee cloud platform make it easier to archive each project phase and create captivating timelapse videos. The dashboards and portfolios from myTikee can also be directly integrated into Procore, a construction management software.

• Facilitating Communication: Timelapse videos serve as powerful marketing tools for presenting the project to investors or the public.

• Saving Time in Analysis: An overview allows quick identification of issues or anomalies on-site.

  
  

The Benefits of Wide-Angle Lenses

The 220° angle provided by Tikee cameras enables multiple viewing options:

• Panoramic View: A complete view of the entire subject, which may show some distortions.

• Immersive View: Navigate the image without distortion, as if you were on-site. Images and videos can also be used with virtual reality headsets for a unique experience.

The myTikee cloud platform offers unique functionalities to visualize and export your images and videos:

• Panoramic or Immersive Photos, downloadable directly from the image gallery.

• Immersive Videos, or Spherical Pan & Zoom Videos in the Timelapse Builder, offering professional-quality videos without distortion.

  
  

Please note: The Tikee camera's dual lenses merge two images to create the 220° angle. However, it is possible to use only one lens to obtain an image with a 149° DFOV.
From a single project, you can generate up to three different viewpoints:

• Right Lens View

• Left Lens View

• Panoramic View (Fusion of Right and Left)

  
  

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left image & right image

Why Does the Tikee Solution Provide the Best Wide-Angle Images?

Achieving wide-angle photos with a conventional rectilinear camera presents two options:

• 12mm or 15mm Lens: Maintains straight lines but introduces significant distortion, compressing the center of the image, making it appear more distant and less defined.

• Fisheye Lens: Distorts the entire image, creating a rounded effect.

  
  

The Tikee solution provides maximum field of view with minimal distortion :

An Invaluable Asset for Construction Projects and Beyond

The Tikee solution offers project managers a comprehensive, continuous perspective on their sites. The myTikee web application provides numerous sharing options and simplified integrations (iframes, multi-account, secure links), allowing images to be shared with different stakeholders.

Through the myTikee AI Dashboard, professionals gain access to precise indicators on site activity, safety, and project progress. Automated analysis detects vehicles, construction machinery, people, and PPE compliance, enabling proactive site management.

Integrating myTikee with Procore offers users a seamless, centralized solution combining continuous visual documentation with project management. This simplifies access to images and data directly from the Procore platform.

By combining this with automated editing tools like the Timelapse Builder, months of work can be condensed into a few-minute sequence, ideal for marketing or reporting purposes.

Conclusion

For project monitoring, wide-angle images are more than just an aesthetic advantage—they are a strategic necessity. Enlaps' Tikee cameras, with their exceptional image quality and autonomy, provide construction professionals with the best solution for capturing, analyzing, and sharing the story of their projects.

Learn more: How to correct the horizon of a timelapse made with Tikee?