Empiric Earth (Nexar)

A dashcam network you can point at a driving scenario, plus live road-detection APIs for approved accounts.

API by agreement, key required, irlpls adapter · docs

Mode
Live, made to order · Speed not stated
Coverage
US, 50+ countries
Price
On request
Key
Required
Resale
Not stated
AI training
Not stated

Eight links

0 of 8 links claimed · 0 evidenced

Compiled from public sources, unclaimed. What they mean

Each link
  1. 1. Real personNot stated

    Person · Not stated

    Still open: Footage comes from dashcams on vehicles making ordinary journeys. No driver identity check is documented, and none would be relevant to the data.

  2. 2. Captured locallyNot stated

    Camera · Not stated

    Still open: No hardware attestation, signing or anti-injection method is documented. The provider is not on the C2PA conforming products list.

    Place · Claimed. Each frame and detection carries the camera's GPS position and heading, an H3 cell and an OpenStreetMap road segment (CityStream OpenAPI). Atlas attaches the location to every result.

    Still open: No GNSS quality metrics, spoofing checks or signing are documented.

    Needs both: the weaker one counts.

  3. 3. Genuine deviceNot stated

    App · Not stated

    Still open: Captured on the provider's own dashcams, which run detection models on the device. No device or firmware attestation is published.

  4. 4. Sealed captureNot stated

    Camera · Not stated

    Still open: No hardware attestation, signing or anti-injection method is documented. The provider is not on the C2PA conforming products list.

    Content · Claimed. Atlas: 'Every video is classified before it enters the index, and in-cabin, stationary, and low-quality footage is filtered out.' Atlas ranks results with the BADAS collision-risk model. Live Feed detections carry model confidence scores, and VirtualCam frames carry a frame-quality score.

    Still open: Classification error rates for delivered data are not published. BADAS benchmarks are internal, and the provider labels them that way. It is not stated whether people review targeted-collection results.

    Counts only with a stated signing mechanism (C2PA, a manifest).

  5. 5. Known timestampReported

    Time · Claimed. Each VirtualCam frame carries a capture timestamp (captured_at, with timezone offset), and each Live Feed detection carries the evidence-frame timestamp plus first- and last-recorded times (CityStream OpenAPI). Atlas attaches the date to every result.

    Still open: How capture time is set (device clock, GPS time or server receipt) is not documented, and the timestamps are not signed.

    A time stated, not attested (RFC 3161, a log): Reported.

  6. 6. Tracked in transitNot stated

    Custody record (optional field) · Not stated

  7. 7. Independently verifiedNot stated

    Cross-check · Not stated

    Still open: CityStream reports repeated observations of a place from Empiric's own dashcam fleet ('Every vehicle that passes a location adds an observation'). One operator and one pipeline count as one source (STANDARD §3), so this is re-observation, not independent confirmation. Empiric's /verify page covers model benchmarks only.

  8. 8. Delivered to youNot stated

    Delivery receipt (optional field) · Not stated

API

Needs a sales or approval step first.

base
https://external.getnexar.com
auth
OAuth +1 more
access
By agreement
adapter
empiric_earth
  • POST /api/livefeed/v4/detections
  • POST /api/virtualcam/v5/frames
  • POST /api/virtualcam/v4/coverage
  • POST /api/workzones/v3/detections
  • POST /api/workzones/v3/detections/single
  • POST /api/roadinventory/v3/detections
  • +1 more in the JSON

Rate limit. Not published. The VirtualCam spec documents an HTTP 429 'API rate limit exceeded' response.

Sources

26 sources
  1. Atlas: targeted collection points the live network at the requested condition, and a coverage gap becomes a collection campaign; 6M+ curated driving videos; every video classified, with in-cabin, stationary and low-quality footage filtered out; ranked by BADAS peak collision-risk score; location, date and outcome on every result; filters by location, metro and date; access 'Web, and API [Coming soon]'; coverage varies by geography; replies in 1–2 business days; no pricing empiricearth.com
  2. AV and robotics page: 'Commissioning targeted collection when a condition you need is not in the archive yet'; Atlas 'points targeted collection at whatever your set is still missing'; replies within one business day; no pricing or licensing empiricearth.com
  3. CityStream: four categories (MUTCD-coded signs, work zones, defects, surface); every passing vehicle adds an observation; continuous update rather than a survey cycle; coverage follows where vehicles drive and rural roads refresh when driven; Live Feed, Road Inventory (bbox or H3 cells), Work Zones and Virtual Cam features; 'nationwide sensor network'; no pricing empiricearth.com
  4. Developers page: training or fine-tuning on real-world driving listed as a use case; Atlas has 'targeted collection when the thing you need is not in there yet' empiricearth.com
  5. Company description: Nexar and Nauto are former brand names of Empiric Earth; World Intelligence product line; scale figures (10B+ miles, 300M+ miles a month across 50+ countries, 98% of US roads, 350,000 active sensors, 80M+ objects a day) empiricearth.com
  6. Methodology: 350,000 sensors on vehicles making journeys their drivers were making anyway; no route driven to produce data; detection runs on the device and what leaves is the detection plus the clip around it; CityStream refreshes as vehicles pass empiricearth.com
  7. Verification Center: BADAS benchmarks are internal and labelled as not independent; VTTI testing covers in-cab alerting only and was funded by the company; scale figures empiricearth.com
  8. Merger agreement announced 1 July 2026; Nexar alone: 100M+ miles a month across 94% of US roads and 50+ countries empiricearth.com
  9. Operating as Empiric Earth from 15 September 2026; 98% of US roads, 50+ countries, 350,000+ connected sensors; data de-identified at capture empiricearth.com
  10. About: the company holds and licenses the record; will not build licence-plate recognition, face recognition or person-level search, and will not sell personal data; live record and 'go and get whatever a customer is missing' empiricearth.com
  11. Privacy centre: published standard for law-enforcement requests ('what we refuse, when we notify'), de-identification and capability disclosure pages empiricearth.com
  12. Website terms: 'Product, device and data-licence agreements are separate contracts' (last modified 15 September 2026) empiricearth.com
  13. Legal hub: published product agreements cover only the Nauto (Fleet Intelligence) solution; no World Intelligence data licence is published empiricearth.com
  14. Nexar developer portal: OAuth authorization code with PKCE against nexar.okta.com (auth server aus3qkg89t55hJZsT4x7); per-product scopes (frame:get, image:get, detection:find, detection:get); per-product Okta group gating; refresh-token exchange at external.getnexar.com/dev-portal/refresh-token developer.getnexar.com
  15. Live Feed API v4: POST /api/livefeed/v4/detections on https://external.getnexar.com; Bearer token; real-time detections with camera GPS, evidence-frame timestamp, first and last recorded times and confidence scores; 'License: Proprietary' developer.getnexar.com
  16. VirtualCam API: anonymized frames by bbox or H3 with date, quality, road type, time of day and heading filters; captured_at, gps_info and camera_heading per frame; coverage endpoint; 429 rate-limit response; v4 frames deprecated 31 March 2025 developer.getnexar.com
  17. Work Zones API v3: curated work-zone detections and single work zone developer.getnexar.com
  18. Road Inventory API v3: curated road-sign detections and single road sign developer.getnexar.com
  19. Okta authorization-server metadata: authorization-code grant, PKCE S256; only standard OIDC scopes advertised nexar.okta.com
  20. getnexar.com UCP profile is a Shopify dashcam store (shopping MCP at nexar-dashcam.myshopify.com), not a data service www.getnexar.com
  21. MCP Registry: no server for 'nexar' (search for 'empiric' also returned 0) registry.modelcontextprotocol.io
  22. Earlier Nexar enterprise page, still live: Collection On-Demand by geography, weather or behaviour; edge devices send only critical events; crowdsourced sensors www.nexar-ai.com
  23. Consumer site: faces, plates and pedestrians blurred on-device before road data leaves the camera; footage, including non-anonymized footage, used to train Nexar's safety AI; some sharing may be a 'sale' under US state privacy laws www.getnexar.com
  24. Earlier Nexar real-time mapping page (2022): CityStream Live API for maps, images and alert streams; WorkZones, RoadInventory and VirtualCam; MTBV as a freshness metric mapping.getnexar.com
  25. Website terms s.6(e): no robots or automatic access to the website; data-licence agreements are separate contracts empiricearth.com
  26. /verify covers model benchmarks (BADAS), not capture provenance empiricearth.com
Notes

About. Dashcam data company formed when Nexar and Nauto merged; it has operated as Empiric Earth since 15 September 2026. About 350,000 dashcams on vehicles making ordinary journeys feed Atlas, a searchable library of curated driving video (6M+ videos) for AV, robotics and research teams, and CityStream, a continuously refreshed feed of road detections (signs, work zones, defects, surface) plus anonymized road frames for an area (VirtualCam). When a scenario is not in the archive, customers can commission targeted collection, which points the live network at that condition. Atlas and targeted collection are sold through sales. CityStream has REST APIs that need an approved account. Nothing can be ordered by API.

Price. from_usd 0 means unknown, not free. The Atlas, CityStream and AV pages list no prices and route to an enquiry form. Data-licence agreements are separate contracts that are not published.

Coverage. Company figures: 350,000 active sensors, 300M+ new miles a month across 50+ countries, 10B+ miles of history, 98% of US roads reached, 80M+ objects detected daily. Before the merger, Nexar alone cited 100M+ miles a month across 94% of US roads. 'Coverage follows where vehicles actually drive', and no route is driven to produce data, so rural or low-traffic roads refresh rarely. CityStream describes a 'nationwide' (US) network and MUTCD-coded US signs. Countries outside the US are not listed. Atlas notes that 'coverage varies by geography'. Non-US countries are unnamed, so the card lists only the US.

Timing. Atlas: 'Targeted collection points the live network at the condition you asked for.' No delivery time is stated. CityStream Live Feed: 'real-time detections performed by Nexar's network of cameras on the road', refreshed as vehicles pass, with no latency figure.

Licence. Customer licence terms are not public. The website terms say 'product, device and data-licence agreements are separate contracts', and the CityStream OpenAPI files state 'License: Proprietary'. The company says it holds and licenses the record, will not sell personal data, and does not build plate recognition, face recognition or person-level search. It says data is 'de-identified at capture', and VirtualCam returns 'anonymized frames'. The developers page lists 'training or fine-tuning on real-world driving' as a use case, but no published term grants or forbids AI training or resale. On the capture side, Nexar's consumer site says road data is blurred on the device. The same page says Nexar uses footage, including non-anonymized footage, to train its own safety AI. The website terms (s.6(e)) ban robots and automatic access to the website; the API's own terms are unpublished, so automation is not stated.

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