Our Sensor Solution
With our sensor solution for autonomous driving and ADAS applications, all you need to do is to mount it on the car, connect to one of the ethernet ports and start recording data. All components are placed on the single roof mounted unit, are pre-calibrated and synchronized.
Lidar
To ensure competitive pricing while maintaining high pointcloud resoolutions, we are using the Livox Horizon Lidar sensor. It targets front facing autonomous driving applications with comparable specs to the high end lidar sensors, both solid state and mechanical lidar competitor products. It features high point rates in the constrained field of view with a non-repetitive scanning pattern. The following videos demonstrate the scanning pattern and show a comparison to the more commonly used Velodyne scanners.
Camera
The 1.6MP FLIR machine vision camera and additional lens were chosen for the IEEE 1588-2008 synchronization compatibility, its high frame rate and its field of view coverage that encompasses the lidar's entire field of view. This choice allows for a highly competitive price with high quality standards.
Peripherals
All peripherals that are essential to our roof mounted sensor setup are mounted on the same board, so that our customers do not have to worry about interconnectivity. Besides the lidar and the camera, the whole roof mount includes a gigabit ethernet switch, power supply converters and stabilizers for the lidar and camera, the Livox Converter 2.0 and all the necessary cabling between all these components. All that needs to be done is to connect to the car's 12V power supply via the banana connectors with the supplied cable. The user can connect any amount of PCs and network components to the switch's free ethernet ports and start recording the sensor data with our recording tools, or alternatively, record the whole network traffic in a pcap file and parse that through our converter tools.
GNSS
Since our software stack is able to also include GNSS data for localization, we are usually recording such a signal together with the data from the roof mount as well. Since the quality of a smartphone's signal seems to be adequate, we are capturing NMEA packets with the GPS2IP App for this with an iPhone that connects to the same network as the roof mounted sensors.
Custom Designs
We understand that different use cases have different needs. While we are offering our sensor solution for sale in its presented configuration, we are more than happy to accommodate for different requirements. We are confident we can design the right setup that can meet our customer's needs. And we are happy to receive any inquiries for our advice and services in this regard.