Home-to-Home Moving & Verified Interior Design
A step-by-step, verified journey for every item, from the old door to the new room. LiDAR scanning works today as a prototype; passage checks and truck loading order are the next stages of the same plan.
Moving is Guesswork, Furnishing is a Blind Experiment
Today, room scanning, moving estimates and interior design live in separate tools. Movewise connects them into one journey.
The Moving Dilemma
- A sofa that fit the old home gets stuck at the new entrance or on a narrow staircase.
- Moving companies quote without seeing both homes, so delays and extra costs surface on moving day.
- Furniture is bought without accounting for walkways, door swings and sockets.
- Trucks loaded without a plan lead to chaos and damage when unloading at the new home.
The Movewise Approach
- Will check each item step by step: from its current room, down the stairs, into the truck and into its place in the new home.
- Will build on iPhone LiDAR scanning, which works today as a prototype, adding uncertainty estimation and motion planning.
- Will load the truck in reverse unloading order (LIFO): items needed first at the new home go in last.
- Will guide the interior layout around clearances, fixed utilities and catalog dimensions.
The 4-Stage Move & Design Pipeline
From the mobile LiDAR scanning app, working today as a prototype, to a planned 3D web planning panel.
1. 3D LiDAR Scanning
Rooms, doors, corridors and stairs are captured with iPhone LiDAR. Areas that can't be scanned are added by hand from a floor plan.
2. Bottleneck & Motion Feasibility
Based on the classic Piano Mover's Problem, which asks whether a rigid object can be moved through a tight space: clearance, tilt and rotation will be calculated for every narrow passage along the route.
3. Smart Truck Loading
The load will be ordered for reverse unloading, with crew size, estimated hours and disassembly needs worked out.
4. Verified Interior Design
Rooms in the new home will be arranged by interior guidelines: clearances, conversation zones and plumbing constraints.
Passage & Fit Simulator
A simplified demo with sample furniture on a two-stop route: the front door, whose width you set, then a stair landing fixed at 86 cm (its turn isn't modeled, nor is door height). The verdict comes from the tightest point.
225 × 95 × 85 cm · 78 kg · 2 movers
Opening needed: upright > 95 cm · on its back > 85 cm
- Front door80 cm · on its side +4 cm
- Stair landing86 cm · on its side +10 cm
Carried on its side, the table clears the tightest point, the front door, with +4 cm. Upright it would need more than 90 cm.
Comparison with Existing Solutions
Existing tools each solve one part of a move. Movewise links scanning, move planning and interior layout into one connected plan.
| Solution | Strength | Limitation | How Movewise Differs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple RoomPlan & magicplan | LiDAR room scanning and floor plan generation | No passage feasibility or motion planning | Designed to connect the scan directly to physical motion analysis |
| IKEA Kreativ & Planner 5D | Furniture visualization and automatic layout | Never checks how items will reach the room or pass through doors | Will check layouts against door, corridor and staircase constraints |
| Smart Moving & ItemFits | Single-item fit and rotation checks for doors and elevators | Dimensions entered by hand; no multi-item or route planning | Aims to solve chained bottlenecks across the whole home, plus item ordering |
| Yembo (AI Video) | Moving quotes from inventory and volume estimates | No route feasibility, layout or moving-order plan | Will plan truck loading order (LIFO) and disassembly needs |
Who It's For
Who Movewise is being designed for, and what each of them would get from it.
Moving Companies
A pre-move survey that would set crew size, truck space, disassembly needs and loading order.
Home Movers
One plan that would show what fits and how to move each piece.
Home Furnishers
Guided layouts that would account for clearances, door swings and wall sockets.
Furniture Retailers
A pre-purchase path check that would test whether the item can get into the customer's home.
Bilkent CS491 Development Team
CS491 & CS492 Senior Design Project, academic year 2026–2027, by Computer Engineering students at Bilkent University.
Hüsnü Arkca
husnu.arkcaAral Müftüoğlu
aral.muftuogluOnur Ege Yakar
ege.yakarYunus Emre Aslan
emre.aslanMehmet Dizdar
mehmet.dizdarProject Deliverables & Reports
Official CS491/492 deliverables, published here as each one is completed.
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Available
Short Project Proposal
Problem definition, constraints, system overview, related work comparison and evaluation methodology.
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In Progress
Requirements & Analysis Report
User stories, system constraints, functional requirements and preliminary data specifications.
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Scheduled
Detailed Design & Architecture
3D spatial engine, motion planning algorithm specifications and cloud API contracts.
Where the route stands: stage 1, LiDAR scanning, works as a prototype. Next stop: the Requirements & Analysis Report.
A hard doorway to test, a question or feedback? Write to ege.yakar@ug.bilkent.edu.tr.