See the unseen.
Every drive becomes a survey. The invisible becomes a map.
We fit sensors to vehicles that are already on the road, and turn what they record into a clear picture of environmental condition — street by street, building by building.
Where the natural world meets precise measurement.
Most environmental data is a snapshot. A monitoring station on one street corner. A survey vehicle that visits once every three years. A model built from assumptions about buildings nobody has looked at.
Meanwhile, thousands of vehicles drive those same streets every week.
Make Sense turns those journeys into continuous measurement. A sensor pod rides on a vehicle already making its rounds. A data and geospatial layer turns the raw stream into maps that can be queried, exported and acted on.
At heart we are a cartographic company. We make the unseen legible.
Three things that make it different
What we measure
- Air quality
- street-level concentrations, at the resolution decisions are actually made at.
- Road surface
- condition and street-asset inventory from the same imagery.
- Building heat loss
- thermal signature across a street, measured rather than modelled.
- One fused layer
- the layers are more useful together than apart, because they share a location, a time and a provenance record.
Who we build for
Local authorities
Statutory air quality duties, highway asset management, housing stock condition and net zero planning, all bought from separate budgets and all needing the same underlying picture.
Gas and electricity networks
Condition and context across a licence area, and the evidence that innovation and asset programmes are built on.
We’re building this now, in Cornwall.
Make Sense is an early-stage company. The first vehicle system is in build, and we’re talking to the organisations who’d use what comes off it. If that’s you, we’d like to hear what you actually need — it’s a better conversation to have now than after we’ve built it.