Key Insights
High-Fidelity Digital Twins: Drone-captured site data is transformed into interactive 2D+3D models, letting architects, designers, and builders virtually explore projects from anywhere and take precise measurements.
Immersive Walkthroughs: Teams and stakeholders can virtually walk through these models in real time, enhancing collaboration and aligning everyone on the design intent.
Advanced Site Analysis: Built-in solar path and seasonal light studies enable optimized sun/shade planning, while terrain analytics (grade, slope, elevation) support precise site engineering and climate-aware design.
Low-Latency Edge Hosting: Global Run’s regionless edge network places servers close to project sites and design teams, ensuring fast data uploads, minimal lag, and reliable performance even in remote or challenging environments.
Secure, Scalable Architecture: The platform runs on a multi-cloud, regionless infrastructure with enterprise-grade security. Data is encrypted and protected with strict access controls, guaranteeing high availability, data sovereignty, and compliance for projects of any scale.
The Company
Landscaping Bee is a technology service provider specializing in drone-based 3D scanning and digital twin solutions for the construction, architecture, and landscape design industries. The company’s platform automates aerial site capture and processing, turning raw scan data into detailed hybrid 2D+3D models. These models allow architects, engineers, and landscape designers to virtually walk through project sites, perform accurate measurements, and test design scenarios without needing specialized CAD software. By packaging complex spatial data into an intuitive online interface, Landscaping Bee empowers multidisciplinary teams to collaborate seamlessly across distances. Landscaping Bee relies on Global Run’s regionless edge network to power its service, ensuring low-latency access, high availability, and robust security for clients worldwide.
The Challenge
Landscaping Bee’s solution depends on handling massive 3D datasets and delivering them interactively to multiple users. The company needed an infrastructure that could rapidly ingest large drone scans, process them into high-resolution models, and stream those models with virtually no delay. Traditional cloud or on-premises servers introduced too much latency and often lacked coverage in remote areas. Many of Landscaping Bee’s projects are in hard-to-reach sites where connectivity is limited, so the platform had to maintain performance despite network challenges. At the same time, clients expect strict data protection and geographic control over their project information. In short, Landscaping Bee required a resilient, globally distributed hosting solution – one that could scale instantly, minimize lag for all participants, and ensure enterprise-grade security and data sovereignty.
The Solution
Global Run’s regionless edge network proved to be an ideal match for Landscaping Bee’s needs. The development team integrated their scanning and modeling pipeline with Global Run’s platform with minimal effort, thanks to its flexible APIs and container-based deployment. Once connected, Landscaping Bee began offloading the intensive data processing and real-time streaming to Global Run’s edge servers around the world. This setup unlocked several key advantages:
Integration: Connecting with Global Run was quick and straightforward. Landscaping Bee deployed its services in containers on the edge network without any downtime or major code changes, accelerating development and time to market.
Security: All project data is secured within a robust framework. Global Run provides end-to-end encryption, strict access controls, and continuous monitoring. This protects sensitive site models and design data at every layer, satisfying corporate requirements for confidentiality and compliance, and guaranteeing data residency for international clients.
Resiliency: Global Run’s multi-cloud orchestration ensures the platform is always online. If one server or data center faces an outage, traffic is automatically routed to the next available node. This means drone scans and digital twins are accessible 24/7 – a critical factor when tight construction timelines depend on uninterrupted data access.
Regionless Hosting: Because the edge network is regionless, Landscaping Bee can launch servers at optimal locations between field sites and remote users. For example, a model from a rural construction site can be hosted on the nearest available node to minimize latency for both the site crew and the designers in the city. This dynamic placement delivers sub-second responsiveness for immersive walkthroughs, even for teams scattered around the globe.
Pricing: Global Run’s on-demand, pay-per-use pricing model gives Landscaping Bee cost flexibility. They pay only for the computing resources they consume during each project. A single global rate applies regardless of which locations are used, simplifying budgeting and making the service economically scalable as the company grows.
Conclusion
By pairing Landscaping Bee’s cutting-edge drone scanning and digital twin platform with Global Run’s edge network and flexible pricing, the company has built a powerful, low-latency collaboration solution for the AEC industry. Project teams can now conduct real-time virtual walkthroughs and precise measurements of even the most complex sites – with dramatically reduced lag, enterprise-grade security, and anywhere-on-the-globe reliability. Fast, straightforward integration and on-demand server provisioning have accelerated project timelines, enabling design teams to iterate quickly on data-driven insights. As a result, architects, landscape designers, and construction managers enjoy clearer visibility into site conditions, more efficient planning, and more confident decision-making at every phase. Landscaping Bee is poised to redefine how outdoor and built environments are surveyed, designed, and refined in the digital era.