Commissioned worldwide, captured in Lithuania and the Baltics
Commissioned capture: your route, your conditions
Most data problems are not a shortage of footage. They are a shortage of one specific condition: snow on an arterial road, a forest track in the dark, fog at dawn, a tunnel. No archive can be made to contain a condition it was never driven in. So AKYS drives it. You write the brief, we execute the capture and deliver the files.
You can commission from anywhere in the world. Nothing about it requires you to be here: the capture happens in Lithuania, Poland, Latvia or Estonia, and the result arrives over the wire, anonymised, in the formats you asked for.
Capture built to a brief, not picked off a shelf
AKYS runs a vehicle-mounted multisensor rig across Baltic cities and roads, and the marketplace sells the results as ready-made datasets. That works when what you need already exists. Commissioned capture is the other half: the drive has not happened yet, and it happens because you asked for it.
The distinction matters most for teams training perception models. A model that fails on wet night-time lane markings needs wet night-time lane markings, not another thousand hours of clear midday driving. Specifying the condition up front is cheaper and faster than hunting for an archive that happens to contain it.
You define the capture
Route, district, season, weather, time of day, environment and sensor mix are all specified by you rather than inferred.
Commissioned from anywhere
The commissioning team can sit on any continent. Only the rig has to be in the Baltics, and it already is.
All sensors at once
LiDAR, 11K 360°, thermal, stereo and positioning are captured on one clock and one trajectory, so the layers align.
Anonymised before delivery
Faces and licence plates are blurred by the AKYS pipeline before anything leaves, in line with EU GDPR.
What you can specify
These are the axes a brief is usually written along. Combine them freely; the practical limits are daylight, weather windows and access permissions, which we will tell you about honestly rather than after invoicing.
Route and area
A named street, a district, a ring road, a corridor between two cities, or a repeat of a route you already hold data for.
Season and weather
Baltic winter with snow and ice, autumn rain, spring thaw, summer dust, fog. Weather-dependent briefs are scheduled to a window, not a date.
Time of day
Night, dusk, dawn, low winter sun. Lithuania supplies genuine long darkness for much of the year, which is hard to fake and hard to source.
Beyond the street network
Forest roads and unpaved tracks, rural and gravel roads, industrial and construction sites, tunnels, car parks, and awkward or hard-to-reach locations.
Scenario and content
Specific asset types, road conditions, sign classes, traffic densities or pedestrian activity you need represented in the material.
Sensor configuration
Choose across the rig rather than taking a fixed bundle: 360°, LiDAR, thermal, stereo depth, environmental and acoustic.
What one drive produces
To make the scale concrete rather than theoretical, this is the output of a single AKYS drive through Vilkpėdės seniūnija in Vilnius on 10 July 2026, which is also the drive behind five of the six live demos. A commissioned capture is scoped differently, but the per-kilometre density is the same.
| Panorama positions | 585 at roughly 3 m spacing, 11K 360° |
|---|---|
| Point cloud | 34 million points from dual LiDAR before thinning |
| Derived layers | Per-panorama depth maps, 18-class semantic point cloud |
| Asset inventory | 678 assets, plus 747 parked vehicles and 24,602 road-user records |
| Thermal | Survey with 66 triangulated heat sources |
| Road condition | Powerline clearance, road-defect and lane-marking layers |
| Environmental | Acoustic, RF and air-quality readings along the route |
| Coordinate system | LKS-94 (EPSG:3346) horizontal, LAS07 orthometric heights via EGM2008 |
| Accuracy | ±3 cm geospatial, RTK-GNSS with 6-axis IMU |
| Delivery | .las / .laz tiled at 250 m, 11K panoramas, video, GeoJSON / CSV |
| Anonymisation | Faces and licence plates blurred before delivery, EU GDPR |
| Where you can be | Anywhere in the world; capture in Lithuania, Poland, Latvia or Estonia |
| Pricing | Quoted per project: [email protected] |
Why commission it here
There is a straightforward reason to have Baltic capture done by someone already in the Baltics, and a few less obvious ones.
One EU jurisdiction
Capture, anonymisation and storage all happen inside the EU under GDPR, so there is no cross-border transfer to paper over.
Real winter
Snow, ice, low sun and long darkness are ordinary conditions here for months, not a rare window to chase.
Variety, close together
Historic centre, post-Soviet apartment districts, modern arterials, rural gravel and forest track are all within a short drive.
Capture, anonymisation and labelling as one job
A commissioned capture rarely stops at raw files. The same pipeline that anonymises AKYS's own capture runs on yours as a matter of course, and data annotation can be applied to the same material in COCO format, so what arrives is training-ready rather than a stack of footage waiting for a second vendor.
If the capture also needs an inventory or a condition report, that is the AI detection layer, and if you want the result explorable in a browser rather than in a viewer, see digital twins. If what you actually need already exists, check the dataset marketplace first; it is cheaper than commissioning a drive.
Frequently asked questions
What is commissioned capture?
It is capture executed to your brief instead of chosen from an existing catalogue. You specify the route or district, the season, the weather, the time of day and the environment, and AKYS drives it and delivers the result as files. It exists because a dataset is often not short of footage in general, it is short of one specific condition: snow, night, fog, an unpaved forest track, a tunnel. Pre-captured data cannot be made to contain a condition it was never driven in.
Can I commission a capture from outside Lithuania?
Yes. The commissioning client can be anywhere in the world, because nothing about the transaction requires you to be present. You send the brief, AKYS drives the capture in Lithuania, Poland, Latvia or Estonia, and the result is delivered as files over the wire. Teams in North America and Asia can commission Baltic capture exactly as easily as a client in Vilnius can.
What conditions and environments can you capture?
Season and weather including Baltic winter, snow, ice, rain and fog; time of day including night and low sun; and environments beyond the ordinary street network: forest roads and unpaved tracks, rural and gravel roads, industrial and construction sites, tunnels, car parks, and unusual or hard-to-access locations. Dense historic city centre, post-Soviet apartment districts and modern arterial roads are all within short driving distance of each other in Vilnius, which is what makes varied briefs practical to fulfil in one trip.
Which sensors can I choose?
The configuration is selectable across the whole rig: an Insta360 Titan at 11K 360° in 10-bit colour, dual high-density mobile LiDAR, LWIR thermal, two ZED 2i stereo cameras, five fisheye context cameras, RTK-GNSS with a 6-axis IMU for ±3 cm positioning, and environmental sensing covering PM2.5/PM10, VOC, CO2, temperature, humidity, acoustic profiling and radiation. All streams are hardware-synchronised and georeferenced on one clock and one trajectory, so the layers align without post-hoc reconciliation.
How is the data delivered, and is it anonymised?
Delivery is by file transfer: .las/.laz point clouds tiled at 250 m in LKS-94 (EPSG:3346) with LAS07 orthometric heights, 11K 360° panoramas, video, per-panorama depth maps, and annotated GeoJSON or CSV inventories. Faces and vehicle licence plates are blurred by the AKYS anonymisation pipeline before anything is delivered, in line with EU GDPR. Annotation to COCO format can be included in the same job.
Why commission capture in Lithuania rather than closer to home?
Capture, anonymisation and delivery all happen inside the EU under GDPR, in a single jurisdiction, with no cross-border transfer to arrange. Lithuania also supplies genuine Baltic winter, real darkness for a large part of the year, and dense city, apartment-district, arterial, rural, gravel and forest environments within short driving distance of one another.
Tell us what needs capturing
Describe the condition, the route and the deliverable, and we will tell you whether it is drivable, when the weather window is, and what it costs. Pricing is quoted per project.