Jakarto

Jakarto is a geospatial data company that captures roads and city assets with LiDAR and 360-degree imagery, then turns them into digital twins. It was started in 2017 by Félix Laroche, who spent more than 20 years at a Canadian real estate data distributor. Its site says the data covers over 120,000 km in Canada.

What Jakarto offers

• Digital twins — engineering-grade models built from LiDAR and imagery.
• Asset inventories — catalogues of road signs, urban forestry, overhead networks and pavement condition.
• Mobile mapping platform — browser access to 3D mapping, LiDAR, 360-degree imagery and 2D data.
• Virtual surveying — taking measurements from captured data rather than in the field.
• GIS services — turnkey GIS work and a plugin that shows its imagery in ArcGIS applications.

Who it works with

Municipalities and organisations managing infrastructure, in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Key facts

• Founded: 2017
• Team: about eight specialists in geomatics and AI, per an earlier profile
• Coverage: Canada, the United States and Europe