⌂ Home ← Back Talamone · AutoGuard AutoGuard ▶ Live demo City drives
Infrastructure intelligence from a moving car

Your network, surveyed
at driving speed.

We build our own vehicle camera system: cameras on the car, a computer in the car, detection running live at 15 frames per second while you drive. One pass produces a pole inventory, the assets on each pole, and the vegetation along the corridor — as data, not as hours of video nobody will watch.

The driver's screen during a real survey drive
LIVE DEMO

Watch the live survey demo

The driver's screen from a real drive: poles drop off the map as the cameras capture them, the table fills up with what was detected on each pole, and the same street is rebuilt in 3D.

▶ Open the live demo
Browse analysed city drives →Six real drives in Hungary, Los Angeles and São Paulo — vegetation, assets and measured heights.

What the vehicle does

Vehicle corridor scan animation Starts only when you ask: it uses the graphics card.

Illustration of one vehicle pass: corridor scan, front and rear camera, detections as they come in.

Detection in the car, not in a data centre

The cameras run at 15 fps and the detector runs on board, so what leaves the vehicle is the finding, not the footage. A day's survey is megabytes, not petabytes.

Two cameras, both sides in one pass

A single forward camera means driving every street twice. Two cameras cover both sides in one pass and roughly halve the driving time.

40+ km of line per day

At normal traffic speed, with the route planned so no street is driven twice for nothing.

The system on the car

Dual-camera 3D detection system architecture

What comes out of one pass

  • Poles located from the footage and put on the map, each one with the frames it was seen on
  • Assets on the pole: insulators, cross arms, and what is missing
  • Vegetation along the corridor, with height where the geometry allows it
  • A street-by-street work list, and a map of what is still to survey

€1 / $1.1 per pole, per year

We analyse poles, so we charge for poles: a yearly fee per pole, not per square kilometre, not per image, not per hour of processing. Your cost is known before the first drive and does not move.

Before you buy the system, try the analysis on your own footage.

Here is our proposal. Look at the city drives on this site first — and notice what they were recorded with: an ordinary action camera on a windscreen, the kind anyone can buy for a few hundred dollars. Nothing else. Send us a few streets of your own and we will run the same analysis on them, free of charge. It is a test, not a survey: it shows you what comes out, on your own network, before you decide anything.

1 · DRIVECamera on the windscreen, drive the line at normal speed, GPS on. A few streets are enough to see what comes out.
2 · SENDUpload the file. You confirm you hold the rights to it; we treat it as confidential and never republish it.
3 · GET THE ANALYSISAn interactive map and report like the city drives on this site, plus the underlying data — derived products, not your imagery.

First run free, one area per organisation, up to 30 minutes of footage. Get in touch and we will send the upload details.

Two ways in

Be clear about which one you are looking at, because it decides what to expect. One is a test you can run yourself this week; the other is the survey you buy.

Test itany action camera · a few hundred dollars
  • See the analysis on your own streets
  • Vegetation along the corridor, assets on the poles
  • First run free — a few streets are enough
  • Fixed optics, rolling shutter, no calibration
  • Phone-grade GPS: no reliable heading
  • Not enough to survey a network on
See six drives made this way →
Survey itour vehicle system · 2 to 4 cameras · on-board computer · RTK
2–4cameras on the vehicle
15 fpsdetection on board
RTKposition and heading
40+ kmof line per day
  • Both sides in one pass with two cameras — four when the corridor has poles on both sides and a second row behind them
  • The detector runs in the car, not in a data centre: what leaves the vehicle is the finding, not the footage
  • RTK heading, so a detection can be tied to the pole it actually belongs to — this is what a phone-grade GPS cannot do
  • Calibrated, fixed optics: the same geometry every day, so heights and distances stay comparable between drives
  • Route planner and the map that eats poles: the crew sees what is still missing, including the poles a van blocked
  • €1 / $1.1 per pole per year, with as many passes as you like
See the driver's screen →

Where the money goes in this business

Most of the cost of a camera survey is not the camera. It is the video you keep and the cloud you rent to look at it afterwards. Our system removes both.

THE USUAL WAY Camera records everything Hours of video stored, then stored again Cloud GPUs rented to watch it Findings a few megabytes COST storage + cloud OUR SYSTEM Camera records 15 fps, two of them Detector runs in the car the rest of the video is dropped Findings only megabytes, not petabytes Server COST neither one

What you pay for

€1 $1.1 per pole
per year

Poles, not pixels

We analyse poles, so we charge for poles. Not per square kilometre, not per image, not per hour of processing. The number is known before the first drive.

Drive it as often as you like

Once the camera is on your vehicle we do not count passes. After a storm, twice a season, every month — the annual fee per pole does not move.

Counted on the server, not on trust

Every analysed pole lands on the server. Both sides see the same number of poles covered, so there is nothing to argue about at invoicing time.

EuropeNorth America
Per pole, full survey, per year€1$1.1
Average span assumed40 m150 ft (≈ 46 m)
Poles per unit of line25 per km35.2 per mile
Per line length, per year€25 / km$38.7 / mile

We bill per pole. Line-length prices are averages at the spans shown; denser lines cost more per km, sparser lines less. Invoicing in EUR or USD. Unlimited passes included.

See it working before you ask for a price.▶ Open the live demo

Why the map eats poles

In our experience urban areas often have no consistent pole records at all — and where records exist, they are not much help in the field. In unfamiliar streets, in traffic, with a van parked in front of the pole, no crew can keep track of which pole was actually captured. So the screen does it.

1 · Before the drive Every pole in the area is on the map, all of them still to do.
2 · Captured poles drop off Seen from close enough, on enough frames — the pole disappears from the map.
3 · Blocked stays on the map A van in the way, a branch, a bus: the capture is unusable, so the pole stays — it does not quietly count as done.

Open the driver's screen and drive it yourself →

Everything on this site is a real drive

No stock footage and no mock-ups: every number on the city pages comes from a camera that actually drove that street, and every claim that is only an estimate is marked as one. Where we have not measured something — a vegetation height without a 3D reconstruction, for example — the page says so instead of showing a number. The defect list we detect today is the one you can see on those pages; we extend it to whatever list your own inspections use.