Xenomatix launched their Road Scanning Services business unit earlier this year, using their ‘6D’ road lidar to measure and collect high-precision and up-to-date data of road networks or sections requested by customers.
Traditional methods for road management and inspection include the use of Multi-Functional Vehicles equipped with multiple sensors and highly specific equipment, or on-site detailed visual inspections. However, both of these options are expensive, labour-intensive, and require a lot of training.
In a partnership with the Belgian Road Research Center, Xenomatix want to develop innovative and affordable solutions for performant and cost-effective road management, taking advantage of upcoming technologies such as solid state lidar. Their system of “6D lidar” has a pair of 3D solid state lidar and optical sensors that can be mounted on normal vehicles. XenoTrack is Xenomatix’s car-mountable, high precision, high-resolution, short-range solid-state 6D lidar sensor with accuracy to within one millimetre for highly granular surface measurements. Capable of identifying road waviness and damage, and small and nearly invisible objects in real-time or post-analysis, the XenoTrack can cover the needs of other inspections. The sensor is available in two versions:
XenoTrack RearView offers detailed surface measurements accurate to within 1mm, making it ideal for applications such as pothole detection, surface monitoring during road construction works, seasonal surface degradation analysis.
XenoTrack FrontView is for real-time application relying on preview measurements such as active suspension for ultimate driving comfort, lane keeping, small but dangerous road obstacle avoidance, and more.
In the near future, Xenomatix expect to see these sensors mounted on dedicated and utility vehicles, providing weekly measurements. In the next 10 years, the company believe that with higher levels of autonomous vehicles, this technology will be implemented in all future cars and data will be collected by all road users.