FARO Focus Premium Laser Scanner: The Future of Reality Capture
The FARO Focus Premium Laser Scanner is a next-generation, high-performance 3D scanning device designed to deliver faster scans, enhanced accuracy, and superior data quality for professionals across industries. Offering up to 50% faster scanning than its predecessor, the FARO Focus, this cutting-edge tool is ideal for large-scale applications such as building documentation, crash/crime scene reconstruction, and facility management. In this article, we will explore the advanced features, specifications, and benefits of the FARO Focus Premium Laser Scanner, making it a vital tool for reality capture professionals.
Key Features of the FARO Focus Premium Laser Scanner
50% Faster Scan Times
The FARO Focus Premium allows users to complete scans in about 1 minute, significantly reducing project time compared to traditional methods. For optimal performance, this scanner integrates with the FARO PanoCam upgrade, capturing high-quality color scans to provide photorealistic 3D models of the environment. This speed improves efficiency and helps meet tight project deadlines, making it an ideal tool for fast-paced industries.
Super-High Color Resolution
One of the standout features of the Focus Premium is its ability to capture up to 266 megapixels of color information, allowing for detailed and high-resolution 3D scans. The scanner’s HDR camera ensures that your scans capture a wide range of lighting conditions, delivering a true-to-life representation of the environment, whether it’s bright daylight or dimly lit areas.
Seamless Integration with FARO Stream and FARO Sphere
For the best on-site data capture, the Focus Premium seamlessly connects to the FARO Stream app. This connection bridges the FARO hardware to the FARO Sphere cloud environment, allowing for real-time feedback and cloud-based data processing. Pre-registration scans are instantly uploaded to the cloud, enabling efficient collaboration and faster project completion. The real-time feedback helps detect errors or missing data, ensuring accurate scans are captured on-site.
Rugged, Weather-Resistant Design
The FARO Focus Premium is designed to withstand harsh environments. It offers built-in protection against dirt, dust, fog, rain, heat, and cold, ensuring reliable performance even in challenging conditions. With an IP54 rating, it is ideal for use in construction sites, industrial settings, and outdoor applications where durability is essential.
Performance and Specifications of the FARO Focus Premium
Scanning Range and Accuracy
Scanning Range: Up to 350 meters with the Premium 350 option, providing superior area coverage per scan position.
Accuracy: 2 mm @ 10 m and 3.5 mm @ 25 m, ensuring high precision even at longer distances.
Angular Accuracy: 19 arcseconds, offering exceptional detail for complex environments.
Maximum Speed: Up to 2 MPts/sec, allowing for faster scans and higher data capture rates.
Color and HDR Imaging
Color Resolution: Capture scans with up to 266 MPx color resolution, delivering highly detailed and vibrant scans.
HDR Camera: Equipped with a 13 MPx HDR camera, the FARO Focus Premium ensures high dynamic range imaging with bracketed exposures for accurate color representation in varying light conditions.
Wireless Workflow and Remote Control
Wireless Operation: The scanner features improved Wi-Fi connectivity for faster and more stable data transfer, enhancing productivity in the field.
Smartphone Integration: Control your scanner remotely via the FARO Stream app on iOS and Android devices, allowing for seamless adjustments and monitoring from anywhere within the Wi-Fi range.
Data Handling and Storage
Data Storage: The FARO Focus Premium comes with a 128 GB SSD for fast scan processing, and a 64 GB SD card for additional storage, supporting large point clouds.
Scanner Control: Control the scanner via the touch screen display or the FARO Stream app for ultimate flexibility and convenience in managing scan settings, resolution, and image processing.
Benefits of Using the FARO Focus Premium Laser Scanner
Faster Project Completion
By reducing scan times and offering real-time data processing, the FARO Focus Premium ensures faster project delivery. The real-time scan registration feature allows for immediate detection of missing or erroneous data, speeding up the project workflow. Additionally, the ability to process scans directly into the cloud makes collaboration more efficient, as the data can be accessed, reviewed, and edited remotely.
Enhanced Accuracy and Detail
With advanced technology and a high-quality laser system, the FARO Focus Premium captures precise, high-resolution scans, even in challenging environments. Whether you’re working on a crime scene, large construction projects, or heritage documentation, the scanner’s accuracy and color resolution ensure a detailed and reliable 3D model.
Seamless Integration with Existing Software
The Focus Premium is compatible with various software solutions, including FARO SCENE and third-party tools like Autodesk ReCap. This flexibility ensures that the scanner can be easily integrated into your existing workflow, whether for building information modeling (BIM), forensic analysis, or engineering projects.
Rugged and Reliable for Field Use
With its IP54 rating, the FARO Focus Premium is built to endure harsh weather conditions, making it perfect for field-based data capture in construction, forensics, and environmental analysis. Its rugged construction ensures that it can withstand dust, rain, and extreme temperatures, giving professionals confidence that their data will be accurate and reliable.
FARO Focus Premium Specifications
Laser and Color Unit
Laser Class: Class 1 Laser
Wavelength: 1553.5 nm
Laser Beam Divergence: 0.3 mrad (1/e)
Max. Scan Speed: 97 Hz (vertical)
Color Resolution: 266 MPx (up to)
HDR Camera: 13 MPx with 2x, 3x, and 5x exposure bracketing
Performance Specifications
Maximum Scanning Range: 350 m (Premium 350 version)
Accuracy: 2 mm @ 10 m, 3.5 mm @ 25 m
Temperature Range: Operating: +5°C to +40°C, Extended Operating: -20°C to +55°C
Connectivity and Data Storage
Data Storage: 128 GB SSD, 64 GB SDXC™ V30 SD Card
WLAN: IEEE 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n, 2×2 MIMO
USB: USB 3.0 port for external connectivity
Additional Features
Real-time On-site Registration: Stream app integration for real-time scan feedback and cloud upload
Integrated GPS & GLONASS: For precise georeferencing in outdoor environments
What’s Included in the FARO Focus Premium Package
FARO Focus Premium 70 unit
SCENE Software for data processing
Power dock battery charger
Scanner transport and carrying case
Mirror cleaning liquid for optics
SD card reader and SD card
Quick Start Guide and Safety Manual
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