EyeVi Technologies

EyeVi Technologies is an Estonian company that produces geospatial data on road networks using mobile mapping hardware and AI-based data processing. Its offering combines a sensor-agnostic, car-mounted mapping kit — a 360° panoramic camera, a LiDAR scanner and a GNSS/INS unit — with a software stack that captures, processes and analyses the resulting data. The company describes the hardware as assemblable within an hour by non-specialists and fittable to any type of car.

The software has four components: EyeVi DataCapture for fieldwork collection of GNSS/INS, LiDAR and raw panoramic imagery; EyeVi DataFlow, an automated processing pipeline producing 360° panoramic images, orthophotos and full-coverage point clouds; Feature Factory, a cloud-based AI module that performs orthophoto-based, panoramic-imagery-based and 3D point cloud feature extraction and outputs georeferenced layers as .csv or .shp; and a web application for verification, correction and quality checking, integrable with customer tools via API. Detected outputs include point cloud classification, road area detection, road defect detection and road object extraction, covering road defects, attributes, profiles, signs, safety barriers, markings and crossroads.

The company positions the resulting datasets for predictive road maintenance, road asset and traffic management, safety auditing, digital twins, smart-city simulation and autonomous transportation. Its CEO has described an ambition to become a platform to which other infrastructure mapping companies upload their datasets.

Founding story

EyeVi was founded in 2020, drawing on domain experience the company traces back to 2010, with the stated mission of making road infrastructure management sustainable through digitalization. Its management team comprises founder and CEO Gaspar Anton, formerly of Google Street View; co-founder and COO Aleksei Kurov, previously COO at several fintech and mobility startups; and co-founder and CTO Erki Märks, formerly engineering manager at Milrem Robotics.

Business model

EyeVi supplies a combined hardware-and-software mapping offering: a car-mounted sensor kit customers can operate themselves plus cloud-based processing and a web application, positioned to clients as zero capital expenditure with operating expenditure reduced by up to 30%. Partners such as XAIS in the United Kingdom capture data with EyeVi systems and feed the processed outputs into their own analytics and decision-support tools, and the web application can be integrated with customer systems via API.

Revenue derives from supplying mapping hardware and AI-based data processing services and access to the EyeVi web application, marketed on a cost-per-outcome basis that removes customer capital expenditure and reduces operating expenditure; the site maintains a pricing page.

Traction

As of February 2022 the platform was used in six countries; the company reported processing 32,000 km of data in the prior year, including 6,000–7,000 km in the United Kingdom, and set targets of 150,000 km and subsequently one million km. In Oslo it digitized 14 types of objects and built a digital data layer within a month. The team page cites more than 150,000 km processed and 34 AI-detected feature types. Named clients and partners include AuveTech, XAIS (which lists over 45 UK local road authorities as partners), GIAP in Poland and Triona.

Latest developments

Following its February 2022 seed round, EyeVi focused on entering the United States, opening a U.S. headquarters at Capital Factory in Austin in October 2022 while keeping development in Estonia. Publicly stated volume targets moved from 32,000 km processed in 2021 to a 150,000 km goal, with the company's team page later citing more than 150,000 km processed and 34 types of AI-detected features.