Monaghan Lumber signs on with new local app

Software will give shoppers a ‘sneak peek’ at renovations

Monaghan Lumber has partnered with local Peterborough startup Kavtek to make a new and unique mobile catalogue app. The app uses augmented reality – superimposing a computer-generated image over the real world, using the camera and app – to show products.

Using this technology, potential buyers are now able to see how Monaghan Lumber’s floors would look in their own homes. The app takes the image it sees on the camera and then adds the digital flooring over the existing flooring. By giving this impression, it makes it fast and easy to determine what floors are best for the user’s house and the home renovation process speeds up, a press release from Kavtek states.

“From day one working with Sanu and the Kavtek team has been an excellent experience,” Warren Rose, director of sales and public relations, states in a press release. “The immediate impact on our service and customer experience has been tremendous, we look forward to using the new technology while we work closely with designers, builders, renovators, and DIY’ers.”

Monaghan Lumber is one of the first building material suppliers in Canada to use augmented reality. The software market for this kind of technology estimated to reach $13 billion by 2022, the press release states..