Here Technologies and Mitsubishi Electric (Melco) are to link their technologies for autonomous vehicles into an integrated offering for automakers.
According to the preliminary agreement, the companies aim to offer services to support cars with ADAS on the road today, through to fully autonomous vehicles of the future. The companies’ initial focus is on providing services which, for example, would support smart lane-level guidance for vehicles based on real-time information about traffic conditions and incidents.
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They will also evaluate how information from vehicle sensors gathered by Mitsubishi Electric can be used for high-definition map updates.
The companies intend to draw on their respective technologies, including: Here’s mapping infrastructure for autonomous cars, HD Live Map; Here’s Open Location Platform; and Mitsubishi Electric’s positioning technology, High-Definition Locator, for data processing, location analytics and the creation of new services.
Here and Melco intend to enable services initially for automotive customers in North America and Europe, before making them available more broadly. The companies will also work together to define possible services that target other industries beyond the automotive market.
“Location technology is at the core of the digital transformation happening right now across every industry and this has been the starting point for some very productive discussions between Here Technologies and Mitsubishi Electric,” said Here Technologies CEO, Edzard Overbeek.
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By GlobalData“Each company has capabilities to bring to the partnership to shape the digital transformation and, together, we believe we can create value for our customers. While our initial focus will be on self-driving cars, over time we see our collaboration broadening as we explore powerful new services and business models for the emerging autonomous world.”
For his part, SVP and group president of Automotive Equipment of Melco, Isao Iguchi added: “Mitsubishi Electric is actively developing self-sensing driving technologies incorporating various peripheral-sensing technologies and network-based driving technologies incorporating satellite system and high accuracy 3D mapping.
“We believe our partnership with Here Technologies will strengthen our global roll-out of network-based technologies for extra-autonomous driving.”
