Innoviz Technologies Ltd., an Israeli high-performance LiDAR sensor (LiDAR) company, recently announced that it has launched and demonstrated the Innoviz360, the newest member of its high-performance Innoviz LiDAR family, which offers higher performance while significantly reducing costs. Innoviz360’s innovative design is based on a new approach that overcomes the barriers of existing rotating LiDARs, which are limited in performance and expensive and bulky.
The new lightweight Innoviz360 lidar can achieve up to 1280 scan lines per frame, and the frame rate is configurable, the resolution is 0.05° x 0.05°, and the scanning distance is 300 meters. Innoviz360’s design uses most of InnovizTwo’s hardware improvements, including single lasers, detectors and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and will benefit from InnovizTwo’s economies of scale.
Innoviz360’s high resolution, high vertical field of view and low cost will help overcome key challenges faced by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to help them achieve L4-L5 in applications such as self-driving taxis, shuttles, trucks and delivery vehicles level of autonomous driving. Innoviz360 also enables autonomy in non-automotive applications such as heavy machinery, smart cities, logistics, construction, maritime and more.
Omer Keilaf, Co-Founder and CEO of Innoviz, said: “Innoviz continues to deliver on its commitment to ensuring road safety and continues to break through significant technological barriers. The new Innoviz360 makes Innoviz the leading provider of LiDAR solutions of all types. One-stop supplier, thus adding another new dimension to the development of the company.”
“Innoviz is already a key player in the automotive lidar market, and its entry into the 360-degree rotating lidar market is a logical fit,” said Mark Fitzgerald, director of autonomous vehicle services at Strategy Analytics, a market research firm powered by TechInsights. “The market needs better performance and lower cost rotating lidar sensors, and Innoviz360’s early specifications are very powerful compared to other similar products.”
