Deal will put lidar to use in autonomous vehicles (AVs) at Chinese shipping ports

Innoviz Technologies has confirmed a major deal that will see its lidar sensing tech deployed at ports in China.

The Tel Aviv firm has worked with strategic partner HiRain Technologies – a leading Beijing-based supplier to the Chinese automotive market – on the project.

The pair have produced a combined solution that uses InnovizOne Lidar and HiRain’s Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and will be employed on autonomous trucks and autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs), and for Vehicle to Everything (V2X) applications.

The first deployment is at RiZhao port in Shandong Province on the Yellow Sea, and it’s hoped the sensing system will be swiftly rolled out at other ports across the country.

The tech is fully integrated into the HiRain vehicles and claimed to be highly durable and precise, offering the ability to detect vehicles, pedestrians and typical port infrastructure. Benefits include improved operational efficiency and enhanced worker safety.

HiRain has also used the lidar to develop its own roadside V2X solution. This is in the form of a sensor unit that can monitor traffic from a bird’s-eye view, collecting data and sending it in real time to a high-performance computer, which then broadcasts the data to all surrounding trucks to avoid collisions.

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