LeddarTech Announces a Collaborative Agreement with Flex for the Development of an Automotive Front LiDAR Solution
October 13 2020 - 12:12AM
LeddarTech®, a leader in Level 1-5 ADAS and AD sensing technology,
is pleased to announce a collaborative project agreement with Flex
(NASDAQ: FLEX) for the development of a LiDAR evaluation kit and
related service offering for design, development, and manufacturing
of automotive LiDAR sensors. Flex is a leading global
manufacturing, supply chain, and technology company. The
collaborative partnership between LeddarTech and Flex combines
LeddarTech’s sensing technology and Flex Automotive Solutions’
expertise and design services to deliver optimized automotive LiDAR
sensors to customers.
LeddarTech welcomes Flex as a member of its
Leddar™ Ecosystem team of technology and industry leaders. The
collaboration combines the flexibility and scalability of
LeddarTech’s sensing platform and ecosystem with Flex LiDAR sensor
design and manufacturing expertise tailored to customer and
application requirements. LeddarTech’s platform also includes
sensor fusion and perception software, which further supports this
collaboration by enabling customers to achieve optimal ADAS &
AD system performance and costs along with cameras, RADARs, and
LiDAR sensors supplied by Flex.
Overall, this cooperation provides a viable path
to volume deployment for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)
and autonomous driving (AD).
“Teaming up with Flex enables LeddarTech to
offer optimal automotive LiDAR solutions to the market,” stated
Michael Poulin, Vice-President, Strategic Partnerships and
Corporate Development at LeddarTech. He continued: “This
collaboration shrinks the customers’ time-to-market, and reduces
development costs and risks while delivering the benefits of an
open platform model with high flexibility and opportunity for
customization, differentiation, and added value. By combining
Flex’s design, development, and manufacturing capabilities, working
synergistically as part of the Leddar Ecosystem, we are
collectively providing all the key ingredients to deploy LiDAR and
LiDAR-enabled ADAS & AD applications at scale,” Mr. Poulin
concluded.
“Flex is pleased to join forces with LeddarTech
and its partners,” said Mike Thoeny, President of the Automotive
Business Group at FLEX. “Flex is ready to contribute with its
expertise and technology to provide the market with a key sensor
technology that potentially can save lives and deliver greater
convenience to vehicle owners and mobility service users. We look
forward to working with LeddarTech on the mass production of
automotive LiDAR sensors based on their open sensing platform.”
About Flex
Flex (Reg. No. 199002645H) is the manufacturing
partner of choice that helps a diverse customer base design and
build products that improve the world. Through the collective
strength of a global workforce across 30 countries and responsible,
sustainable operations, Flex delivers technology innovation, supply
chain, and manufacturing solutions to diverse industries and end
markets.
For more information, visit flex.com.
About LeddarTech
LeddarTech is a leader in environmental sensing
solutions for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance
systems. Founded in 2007, LeddarTech has evolved to become a
comprehensive end-to-end environmental sensing company by enabling
customers to solve critical sensing and perception challenges
across the entire value chain of the automotive and mobility market
segments with its LeddarVision™ sensor-fusion and perception
platform. LeddarTech delivers a cost-effective, scalable, and
versatile LiDAR development solution to Tier 1-2 automotive system
integrators that enables them to develop automotive-grade
solid-state LiDARs based on the foundation of the LeddarEngine™.
LeddarTech has 14 generations of solid-state LiDARs based on the
LeddarEngine platform operating 24/7 in harsh environments. This
platform is actively deployed in autonomous shuttles, trucks,
buses, delivery vehicles, smart cities/factories, and robotaxi
applications. The company is responsible for several innovations in
cutting-edge automotive and mobility remote-sensing applications,
with over 95 patented technologies (granted or pending) enhancing
ADAS and autonomous driving capabilities from Level 1-5.
Additional information about LeddarTech is
accessible at www.leddartech.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter,
Facebook, and YouTube.
Contact:Daniel Aitken,
Vice-President, Global Corporate Marketing and Communications,
LeddarTech Inc.Tel.: + 1-418-653-9000 ext.
232daniel.aitken@leddartech.com
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