EDACafe Industry Predictions for 2020 – Cepton

1. Traffic management: The need to implement technologies that provide real-time data about changes in traffic flow, volume and traffic incidents will play an integral role in smart city infrastructure in 2020 and beyond. Incorporating lidar into intelligent transportation systems makes it possible to automate appropriate responses to aid traffic flow, helping to predict and detect congestion, near-miss events and other road safety challenges, as well as adding intelligence to traffic intersections for increased efficiency. This will allow city traffic controllers and state DOTs to take action and minimize the impact on motorists and residents.

2. Road tolling: We will see a continuous upgrade in traditional tolling systems in 2020 and beyond. Tolling solutions providers can become less dependent on traditional ground loop systems to detect and profile vehicles moving at highway speeds, shifting more towards using  real-time high density lidar point cloud object data, a three dimensional representation of each vehicle. The resulting data is of such a high fidelity that it even helps answer questions such as how many axles a vehicle has, or whether a truck is towing a trailer. This will minimize the risk of leakage and mischarged fees by ensuring all physical vehicle attributes are captured.

3. Safety & efficiency of transit systems: Public transportation systems such as above ground and underground metros will seek out lidar-based solutions to monitor platforms for abnormal behaviors, suspicious objects, unauthorized entry into dangerous zones and passengers entering and exiting the trains, significantly increasing overall safety. Implementing lidar to automate monitoring systems for public transportation offers the ability to study crowd flow and provide insight for queue management as well as autonomously detect when obstacles are present on the tracks. This will help raise the appropriate alarms quickly and notify personnel.

4. Shipping: Lidar will become ubiquitous in the intelligent transport space augmenting existing sensor modalities with the added dimension of pin-point distance accuracy. Ports are high-risk facilities when it comes to illegal activities such as trafficking and theft. Lidar’s ability to build digitized 3D images makes it an effective tool to detect suspicious activity and trigger automated responses in a timely manner. In addition, deploying lidar-based systems at cargo terminal sites and along transport routes to monitor individual containers will make it easier to detect and track damage, which is a significant cost issue for ports and container shipping providers. Container damage is widely recognized as a major safety and cost risk across the industry.  The ability of next generation lidar sensors to scan vehicles and containers at high speeds will bring improved time/cost efficiency and damage assessment precision.

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