A test vehicle with a roof sensor rack driving at night on a wet motorway.A test vehicle with roof-mounted sensors driving on a motorway in daylight.

Anonymisation and synthetic data

AIAKO protects privacy. ADAS data keeps its value.

Artificial intelligence that anonymises images in real time, in the vehicle, and generates synthetic data for developing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

Faces and number plates · Posture and motion

The challenge

The hidden bottleneck in ADAS development

Developing and validating driver-assistance systems means recording vast amounts of video on motorways and city streets. And almost every frame contains personal data: faces and number plates.

Fleets that never stop recording

Sensor-equipped vehicles generate video every day, and that video moves between manufacturers, suppliers and data teams.

People in every scene

Pedestrians and drivers appear in almost every sequence. Unless they are protected, the data cannot be stored, shared or reused with confidence.

Anonymisation must not break the data

Blurring or masking removes exactly what the model needs to learn: posture, movement and interaction with the environment.

Current solutions

Conventional solutions weren’t built for this

They cannot guarantee data privacy and data quality at the same time.

Comparison between conventional solutions and AIAKO
Conventional solutionsAIAKO
No:They don’t scale Processing every recorded hour after the fact adds cost and delay as the fleet grows. Yes:Processed in the vehicle, no data backlog
No:They aren’t real time While data waits to be anonymised, personal information is already stored. Yes:Real-time anonymisation
No:They aren’t on board They don’t run in the vehicle or the capture system, so privacy arrives late and as a separate step. Yes:On-board module

The solution

Privacy at the source, without losing the value of the data

An on-board module and an offline service, in a single data pipeline.

Rendering: original capture of a traffic scene with pedestrians and number plates.Rendering: original capture of a traffic scene with pedestrians and number plates.

01

Capture

The vehicle’s cameras record as usual. AIAKO integrates with the acquisition system.

Rendering: the same scene anonymised in the vehicle; faces and number plates hidden, posture and gaze direction kept as pose lines.Rendering: the same scene anonymised in the vehicle; faces and number plates hidden, posture and gaze direction kept as pose lines.

02 / On-board module

Real-time anonymisation

Faces and number plates are anonymised in the vehicle itself, before the data is stored, while posture, movement and gaze direction are preserved.

Rendering: four synthetic variants of the same scene (dusk, rain, daylight and fog) with different people, ready for training and validation.Rendering: four synthetic variants of the same scene (dusk, rain, daylight and fog) with different people, ready for training and validation.Illustrative rendering

03 / Offline service

Synthetic data

We replace people with realistic synthetic ones and create variations of the same scene to broaden dataset diversity.

The result: datasets ready for training and validation, with privacy solved in real time and built into the vehicle’s data pipeline.

Who it’s for

For every step of the ADAS data pipeline, from capture to training

01

Vehicle manufacturers (OEMs)

Record and share fleet data with privacy solved at the source.

02

Tier 1 ADAS suppliers

Build anonymisation into your training and validation pipelines.

03

Validation and testing

Test on real, anonymised data and extend scenarios with synthetic variations.

04

Capture and on-board systems

Add real-time anonymisation to your data acquisition systems.

How we work

From pilot to integration

Automotive and AI are where we come from: over 20 years in the industry and a team that knows how ADAS are developed and validated. We speak your language.

Pilot

We start from your sequences and requirements to measure results in your own use case.

Integration

We adapt the on-board module to your capture hardware and the offline service to your data pipeline.

Service

In the vehicle in real time, in the cloud as SaaS, always backed by integration support.

About AIAKO

Who is behind AIAKO

A company with a single focus: privacy for driving data. This is what we bring.

  • Our own technology: on-board module and offline service
  • Computer vision to anonymise, generative AI to create synthetic data
  • Direct relationships with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers
  • Pilots completed with positive feedback
Aitor Iñiguez de Heredia, founder of AIAKO

Aitor Iñiguez de Heredia

Founder of AIAKO

A mechanical engineer with over 20 years in engineering, sales and leadership across Spain and Germany, from flight control systems at DLR to Mobility CEO at NEM Solutions. He now brings that experience to AIAKO.

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Vision

The future of ADAS depends on data. The future of data depends on privacy.

Today we solve privacy; tomorrow, we help create value from every frame.

Let’s talk about your use case

Want to know more? Tell us your challenge and what your fleet records. We’ll reply with a demo proposal.

info@aiako.tech