The Zenseact platform is comprised of a series of software technologies, compute infrastructure both on-board the vehicle and off-board in the cloud, as well as a large ecosystem of tools that automates the process of continuous data driven development and deployment of autonomous driving features across the entire vehicle fleet.
Implementing a fast continuous loop for collecting road data and safety case information from the fleet, developing, verifying, validating and deploying safety critical features “over the air” for vehicles in motion, is a very complex task. The reward of mastering the loop, unlocks the capability to gradually expand the autonomous vehicle driving task, both by seamlessly adding driving capabilities but also by gradually increasing the operational environment in which the vehicle is allowed to execute. As an example, to provide an unsupervised Highway Pilot feature to a customer, you may be required to iterate the loop 10.000 times!
Clearly, the speed at which you can iterate defines your market advantage and the quicker you can iterate the sooner you can deliver your services to your customers. At Zenseact we have industrialized this continuous data driven development loop and named it “The Machine”, in which our platform components are tightly integrated, to ensure maximum efficiency end to end.
By dynamically probing and analyzing data from the fleet of consumer vehicles we can learn how to improve safety and automated driving capability based on real-world data. This enables continuous growth of feature content and availability of automated driving so that we can scale it from somewhere to everywhere.
The initial launch will be on Volvo Car’s SPA2 modular platform, which will offer Volvo’s first unsupervised self-driving system, called Highway Pilot.
Complete – From Pixel to Torque
Our platform supports the requirements for a complete ADAS and AD software suite that takes care of every single process from sensing to vehicle control.
Computer vision, sensor fusion, localization, decision and control, on-board/off-board analytics, safety cases, cloud, data probing, over-the-air software updates and continuous deployment are all in-built capabilities of the platform. Our hardware blueprint is a combination of several exterior cameras, radars, ultrasonics, lidar, a driver monitor, as well as a powerful vehicle computer.
Open – For third party innovation
Our software platform, equipped with perception and control capability, is open to third-party development e.g. for new innovative vehicle features or for new services based on data collected by the vehicle fleet.
Scalable – From NCAP-level ADAS to high-end AD
The modularity of the platform answers to the requirements of having different vehicle trim levels based on the same software platform. In a modular way allow for deployment of single radar/camera ADAS to unsupervised highway driving features without changing the underlying architecture, ensuring scalability from a feature as well as from a cost of ownership perspective.
Continuous – Staying relevant by driving the customer journey.
Zenseact platform provides a viable path towards offering continuously relevant autonomous driving and active safety features for consumer vehicles. By automating the development and deployment lifecycle we are able to ensure that consumers will experience a seamless consumption journey across base features to on-demand and upgrade premium on-demand features.
The end users will gain freedom of choice: to switch between manual or autonomous driving, while relying always on safety-leading technology to back their actions. Our bespoke technology secures future system updates together with unhindered user experience. Thanks to the fleet insight machinery and over-the-air-update capabilities, feature performance and availability will increase drastically over time. The updates will be unobstructive and discreet. This will result in a progressively better and increasingly liberating day-to-day driving experience for the end user.
Safety creates trust. And trust creates confidence. It is our firm belief that when the user is trusting enough in their vehicles to take them to their destination safely, they will finally be able to relax. By allowing the car to take over the wheel completely they will subsequently get in a “zen” mode and focus on other things while on the road, claiming some precious quality time back. Be it for leisure and pleasure like reading a book, playing a game with the family or even taking a nap, all the way out to maximising productivity like preparing for that next big meeting, this liberty over one’s time will always be a matter of uncompromising safety.
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