At Jakarto, innovation is at the core of our DNA. We are proud to unveil our new generation of mobile mapping units, designed and assembled by our team to push the boundaries of precision, performance, and operational efficiency.
These new units embody our vision: capturing the reality of the territory with engineering-grade accuracy, while accelerating every step of the process—from field acquisition to the Jakarto platform.
Our new mobile mapping units integrate some of the most advanced components available on the market:
Z+F LiDAR: Renowned for its extremely high point density and reliability, enabling detailed capture of complex urban environments.
Ladybug 6 camera: Ultra-high-resolution 360° imagery (72 megapixels), delivering sharper images, improved dynamic range, and optimal consistency with point clouds.
iXblue IMU by Exail: An industrial-grade inertial measurement unit ensuring precise and stable georeferencing, even in challenging GNSS environments.
GNSS system
This technological combination ensures optimal synergy between LiDAR, imagery, and positioning—essential for producing high-quality digital twins.
This new generation of units significantly accelerates the entire workflow, from field collection to data delivery:
Elimination of most manual stitching
Drastic reduction of post-processing adjustments
Fewer—and often no—return trips to the field
Faster data availability on the Jakarto platform
The result: shorter turnaround times, optimized costs, and faster value delivery.
Unlike many mobile mapping solutions that rely on turnkey systems, Jakarto assembles and integrates its mobile mapping units in-house.
This strategic choice allows us to fully control every component of the system—from the LiDAR sensor and cameras to the inertial unit and overall system architecture.
This approach delivers concrete and long-term benefits:
Full control over quality and performance
Technological scalability: units designed to easily integrate new sensors, cameras, or emerging technologies
Independence from vendor roadmaps and update cycles
Tight alignment between hardware and algorithms, maximizing data quality
Building our units internally is a major innovation lever, enabling us to evolve our solutions at the pace of the market and our clients’ needs.
Point clouds generated by our new units are now automatically colorized using 360° imagery.
This advancement eliminates manual steps while significantly improving data readability and visual richness.
Automatic colorization enables:
More intuitive scene interpretation
Better asset contextualization
A richer data foundation for AI-based automated extraction
Combined with 360° imagery overlay, the result is an even more realistic rendering.
The development of this new generation of units was carried out in collaboration with TakDesign, a Québec-based industrial design firm.
Together, we rethought the unit architecture to:
Optimize sensor integration and positioning
Improve robustness and field reliability
Facilitate maintenance and future upgrades
Deliver a functional, clean, and durable design
This design effort strengthens the alignment between technological performance and operational efficiency.
The combined evolution of hardware and processing algorithms enables an even higher level of precision and alignment between point clouds and 360° imagery.
These improvements translate into:
Stronger spatial consistency over long corridors
More reliable measurements
More accurate and repeatable asset extraction
All essential elements for city-scale, operational digital twins.
Our new units are now deployed on Ford Maverick hybrid trucks, aligning with our commitment to reducing the environmental footprint of our field operations.
This approach enables:
Significant fuel consumption reduction
Lower emissions
Better adaptation to urban environments
Mapping tomorrow’s cities also means adopting more responsible practices
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With this new generation of mobile mapping units, Jakarto strengthens the foundations of its digital twin platform.
More precise, better-aligned, and faster-delivered data supports increasingly advanced use cases: asset inventories, urban forestry, aerial networks, planning, and infrastructure management.
👉 A key new milestone in our mission: delivering fine, measurable, and scalable territorial intelligence.