TomTom (TOM2) has opened a new office in Lódz, to accommodate its growing engineering unit in Poland as it looks to address autonomous driving issues.
The manufacturer says the inauguration of the new office signifies the importance of the growing Lódz engineering site, which is developing technology needed to make smarter cities and autonomous driving a reality.
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The Lódz team, working together with other TomTom engineering hubs globally, produces technology for gathering sensor data for map production, (automated) tools to process the data and proprietary transactional map database production platform.
The teams in Lódz work on location-based services, navigation and components for autonomous driving, such as RoadDNA and HD Map and recently created the new TomTom City portal, which provides real time traffic information for more than 100 cities.
“Today’s opening of the new office in Lódz is a clear indication of how important this engineering hub is for TomTom,” said TomTom board member, Alain de Taeye.
“We believe our new office will inspire our experts even more to expand their work, developing technology and location based services, crucial to map making, navigation & autonomous driving.”
The TomTom team in Lódz consists of engineers, developers and coders with a variety of backgrounds in subjects such as information technology, geodesy and linguistics.
The main activities in Lódz are the development of navigation software and information technology for map production.
The teams in TomTom Lódz work with complex big data, as well as the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the automation of information processing and software production.
