Ignitis ON: Discover Lithuania (Lithuania)
This EV racing event used BLACKVUE Cloud-connected dash cams to monitor,
record and live broadcast the event to fans!
About Ignitis
Ignitis is an electric vehicle charging solution provider based in Vilnius, Lithuania. It provides charging solutions to individuals and business throughout the country as well as Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Finland through its subsidiaries.
Its Ignitis ON electric vehicle charging service is the largest fast-charging station network in Lithuania.
Since 2014, Ignitis sponsors the only EV rally competition in the Baltics. In 2022, the rally took place for the 8th year in a row. The goal? Drive the longest distance within six hours.
Drivers must manage their vehicles efficiently so as to cover as much distance as possible without depleting their battery too fast, all while adhering to traffic laws and speed limits.
As global interest for electric vehicles increased, the event grew from a race between a few friends to a competition where the major brands in the EV industry are now represented.
What Problems Did the Organizers Need to Solve?
“After the race in 2021 there were many complaints from the competitors, who said that the others were breaking the rules on the road. ” said Darius Grinbergas, organizer.
“Then one team suggested that we should install cameras in every car, so that if needed, we could check if someone did break the rules.
But imagine if we had to check almost 40 cars who drove for 6 hours each, we’d be looking at the recordings for weeks!”
Why Did They Choose BLACKVUE?
“During the Winter we tried to find a solution and we found one. Our email was answered by Pittasoft […].
Their BLACKVUE cameras can stream the footage live and anyone in the world can login and report any incidents.”
Darius Grinbergas
Ignitis ON Race Organizer
How Did Ignitis ON: Discover Lithuania Integrate with BLACKVUE?
Following the suggestion to use cameras in the vehicles, the organizers kept looking for a solution that would fit their needs.
“During the Winter we tried to find a solution and we found one”, said race organizer Darius Grinbergas. “Our email was answered by “Pittasoft” a company that makes the most advanced dashcams. Their “BLACKVUE” cameras can stream the footage live and anyone in the world can login and report any incidents. We had many online meetings with Pittasoft to figure out all of the logistics and technical hurdles for the event and reached an agreement. At first we had capped the amount of entries at 30, but just in the first week alone, we received 34 entries, at the same time 32 BLACKVUE cameras were on their way to Lithuania. We increased the number of participants to 40 and Pittasoft sent us a few more cameras. During the race anyone was able to connect to any camera of the participants and see what they were seeing without any restrictions.
