Sense Photonics comes out with the world’s first flexible, scalable, high-performance automotive Lidar platform to enable widespread ADAS and AV system adoption for any vehicle. Driven by its patented and proprietary VCSEL laser emitter and SPAD receiver technologies, Sense’s platform delivers the richest data point clouds at the highest points per second (PPS) of any automotive Lidar system.
The camera-like design illuminates the entire scene and utilizes global shutter acquisition to capture all data points in a frame within the field-of-view simultaneously. This allows vehicles and other objects to be imaged without any motion distortion or data gaps.
The Sense platform can provide more than 10 million PPS to enable unmatched 3D vision, compared to 2 million PPS found in legacy scanning Lidar systems. This increase in 3D data density has significant implications for ADAS and AV applications, as it provides vehicles with the information density to classify and act on data 3-5 times faster than other systems.
The versatile design of the Sense Platform creates a new level of flexibility in Lidar that will significantly simplify and reduce costs for automotive manufacturers. With a simple change in optics, the same platform that delivers long-range, forward-facing data can be used to create a wider field of view for short- or mid-range sensors, providing a full 3D view of a vehicle’s environment. This flexibility allows Sense to quickly tailor solutions for any automotive customer’s unique needs with significantly less development and validation time.
The Sense Platform – Machine Vision Lidars for ADAS & AV
Sense’s unique solid-state design also gives their platform modularity and flexibility to adapt to various form-factors — allowing automakers to integrate these solutions seamlessly with the vehicle’s styling in mind. Sense’s emitter and receiver are housed in a unibody design but do not need to be co-located, and are small enough to be installed inside headlamps or behind the windshield.
The platform is now provided to major OEMs and AV providers as well as leading global Tier-1 automotive suppliers.
