FARO Blink Imaging Laser Scanner

FARO Blink Imaging Laser Scanner

The FARO Blink™ Imaging Laser Scanner is a compact 3D reality-capture scanner designed to make 3D laser scanning fast and simple, particularly for construction, surveying, facilities, and public-safety documentation. FARO describes it as an easier-to-use alternative to more complex terrestrial laser scanners.

Key specifications

These are from FARO’s current 2026 documentation.

How it works

The basic workflow is:

1. Set up → 2. Press one button → 3. Scan → 4. Move to the next position → 5. Automatic positioning/registration → 6. Process/share

The FARO Stream mobile app guides the operator through scanning and helps maintain scan-to-scan positioning. Data can then be processed in FARO Sphere XG in the cloud, or processed offline with FARO SCENE.

What is it good for?

Construction / AEC

• As-built documentation
• Existing-condition surveys
• Floor plans
• Site progress documentation
• BIM/reality capture
• Measurement and dimensional checking

Facilities

• Building documentation
• MEP/asset context
• Maintenance planning
• Renovation surveys

Public safety

• Crime-scene documentation
• Accident/crash scenes
• Fire scenes
• Pre-incident planning and evacuation mapping

The important point

Blink is positioned more toward speed, ease of use and visual documentation than maximum surveying accuracy. Its advertised accuracy is up to 4 mm at 10 m, so it can be very useful for building documentation and measurements, but I wouldn’t automatically choose it for demanding survey-grade control, precision deformation monitoring, or high-accuracy industrial metrology.