58 In September 2024, Intergeo continued its record of leading the way as a platform for new innovations and announcements in the world of all things geospatial, bringing together 579 exhibitors and more than 17,000 visitors from 121 countries across its expo floor. The conference, meanwhile, attracted an audience of about 800 people from 47 countries to discuss AI, digitalisation, Earth observation, and the ever-growing role of uncrewed systems in geospatial survey and inspection. With the Messe Stuttgart playing host to this 2024 edition of the show, the three expo halls of Intergeo naturally housed hundreds of new products in GNSS, connectivity, photography, data processing and uncrewed vehicles, a selection of which are discussed below. While HP is best known as a producer of computer, printer and related IT systems, the company attended Intergeo to demonstrate a small UGV it has developed for floor-layout line-printing of construction sites. HP SitePrint is a robotic solution that prints the most complex layouts with pinpoint accuracy, empowering construction professionals with significantly increased productivity over traditional, chalkline layouts. “The robot HP SitePrint is developed by the company division, HP Construction Services,” said Sergi Gilabert. “Barcelona is home to HP’s Large Format Printing headquarters, where we have a long history of printing for architects, engineers and other construction professionals. Around five years ago, we launched a project to investigate new niches and opportunities in the construction printing market, and that motivated us to consider the idea of, and then start prototyping, a robotic solution for autonomous layout in construction.” Construction site layout is typically done manually, and is thus a timeconsuming and physically onerous task. As the construction industry has failed to increase productivity over the last few Intergeo’s trio of expo halls played host to an array of new tech, as Rory Jackson reports A wide variety of new uncrewed vehicles and solutions for autonomous navigation, data collection, connectivity, and even propulsion and power were unveiled across the vast halls of Intergeo 2024 (Images courtesy of Intergeo) December/January 2025 | Uncrewed Systems Technology Geospatial update
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