NavLive

Handheld AI-LiDAR scanner that turns a building walkthrough into a RICS-grade floor plan in minutes

NavLive Radius is a handheld LiDAR scanner with onboard AI (SLAM) processing that captures RICS Grade 1:100 building surveys during a single walkthrough, generating 2D floor plans, elevations/sections, and 3D point clouds on-device, without waiting on a cloud upload. Scans sync to the NavLive Portal for measurement, review, and CAD/BIM export, or can be sent to NavLive's Scan2Plan service for professionally drafted drawings.

£4M total: a £3.3M seed round (led by Oxford Science Enterprises; other investors include SOSV, Oxford Capital Partners, Clearance Venture Partners, AE Works, Britbots, and Oxford Innovation Finance) plus an approximately £700K Innovate UK grant, announced June 2025. Separately, NavLive won the 2025 CEMEX Ventures/Construction Startup Competition (Recotech European Pitch Day) - a recognition/pitch-competition win, not confirmed as a direct equity investment from CEMEX Ventures. raisedEarly Stage

Founded 2022 · One named vendor case study - BW (Workplace Experts), which the company says achieved approximately an 80% reduction in survey and drawing time. A separate funding-announcement article (Print in the Channel, June 2025) states the scanner "is deployed across major construction projects with firms like Jacobs, AtkinsRealis, and Mace, plus nuclear and defense applications," but this is not corroborated by named case studies on NavLive's own site, so it is noted here as an unverified third-party claim. Company reports ~15-16 employees (Oxford Innovation Finance, LinkedIn); Companies House lists 11-50 employees. Assessed as Early Stage rather than Growth Stage: although founded in mid-2022 (4 years old), total disclosed funding (~£4M / ~$5M) sits at the low edge of the Growth Stage funding band and only a single named customer case study is publicly confirmed.

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WHY IT EXISTS

Why This Tool Exists

The Problem

Producing an accurate floor plan of an existing building - for fit-out, refurbishment, feasibility studies, or facilities management - traditionally requires a surveyor with a total station or tape measure to spend one or more days on site, followed by additional office time drafting the results in CAD. Existing handheld 3D scanners often solve the capture step but still output raw point clouds that require separate manual CAD drafting before they are usable as a floor plan.

The Solution

NavLive Radius combines a LiDAR sensor, three onboard HD cameras, and an embedded NVIDIA AI processor to run SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) locally on the device while a surveyor walks the building, producing RICS Grade 1:100 accurate 2D floor plans, sections/elevations, and a 3D point cloud within minutes of finishing the walkthrough. Scans upload to the NavLive Portal for browser-based measurement, annotation, and export to DWG/DXF/PDF/E57/LAS for Revit, AutoCAD, Archicad, or SketchUp; customers who want fully drafted architectural drawings rather than raw exports can pay for the Scan2Plan drafting service.

USAGE

How You Use It

Delivery Method

Hardware + SoftwareCloud PortalMobile App

Integrations

Autodesk RevitAutoCADGraphisoft ArchicadSketchUpRhino (per vendor feature-page listing)

Disciplines

Architecture, Construction

Workflows

Data & Automation, Planning & Feasibility

Project Phases

Pre-Design, Construction Administration, Operations/FM

Project Types

Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Infrastructure, Public Sector, Mixed-Use

TRANSPARENCY

Data Transparency

Exactly what this tool uses and how

Input

What it needs

Required:Physical building or site to scan (walkthrough with the NavLive Radius handheld scanner)

Optional:Survey control points for improved accuracy and multi-scan alignment, Existing floor plan references for comparison

Formats:Live LiDAR + camera capture processed on-device during the scan walkthrough

Output

What you get

Format:On-device generated 2D/3D building models accessible via the NavLive Portal, with an optional professionally drafted Scan2Plan deliverable

Fields:2D floor plans, Elevations and sections (Scan2Plan/custom quote), 3D point cloud, RICS Grade 1:100 accuracy measurements, High-resolution site photography tied to the scan path, AI-detected windows/doors overlays on generated plans

Algorithm

How it works

Model:Proprietary on-device SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) engine running on an embedded NVIDIA AI processor, built on IP from five years of SLAM and 3D-mapping research at the Oxford Robotics Institute by co-founders Dr David Wisth (CTO) and Prof Maurice Fallon (Chief Science Officer). No foundation-model name, training dataset, or third-party ML framework is publicly disclosed.

Accuracy:Vendor claims RICS Grade 1:100 measured-survey accuracy, cited elsewhere on the site as approximately 1-2 cm using "multi-sensor SLAM"; no independent third-party accuracy benchmarking study was found.

Privacy

How your data is protected

Retention:Standard 24-month retention period per the published privacy policy ("your personal data is held for a period of 24 months, or for such longer period required by law"), after which NavLive states it will seek permission to extend retention or will delete/anonymize the data.

Training:Not publicly specified whether customer scan data (point clouds, imagery) is used to train NavLive's SLAM/AI models.

Compliance:Privacy policy references GDPR and the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), No SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other third-party security certification publicly disclosed

API

Integration

Endpoint:

Not publicly documented - no public developer API was found. NavLive is delivered as a proprietary hardware scanner plus the NavLive Portal web app and a companion mobile app (published on Google Play as "NavLive"); CAD/BIM interoperability is handled through file export (DWG/DXF/E57/LAS) rather than a live API.

Method:Not publicly specified

USE CASES

Use Cases

·Existing-conditions building surveys ahead of office fit-out and refurbishment projects (vendor case study: ~80% reduction in survey and drawing time for BW)
·RICS Grade 1:100 measured surveys to support feasibility studies and property acquisition due diligence
·As-built documentation to verify construction progress against the design model
·Rapid floor-plan capture for large event/exhibition spaces (e.g., a 9,035m² floor at London Build 2025)
·Facilities and asset-management documentation for property developers and asset managers

PRICING

Pricing

Free

No free tier for the scanner hardware itself; the Scan2Plan drafting service offers a limited-time free allowance for the first 500m² per customer ("limited availability, offer valid while budget lasts")

Pro

NavLive Radius scanner hardware priced at approximately £25,000 per unit, per AEC Magazine industry reporting - not listed as a fixed price on the vendor's own site, which directs buyers to contact sales for a quote

Enterprise

Scan2Plan professional drafting service: first 500m² free, then £0.60/m² for 500-1,500m² (roughly 1 working day of turnaround per 100m²), with custom quotes for projects over 1,500m² or requiring elevations/extra detail

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Research Sources & Data QualityLast verified: 2026-07-16

Data Sources (15)

Verified Data (14)

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