POLYN Technology introduced today VibroSense for Tire Monitoring, the Neuromorphic Front-End solution for preprocessing vibration data locally, right on the tire.
POLYN is a fabless semiconductor company providing application-specific Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP) technology and Neuromorphic Front-End (NFE) chips for always-on sensor-level solutions.
Introduced at the Tire Technology Expo here, where POLYN CEO Aleksandr Timofeev spoke today, VibroSense for Tire Monitoring utilizes NASP technology for reliable tire vibration analysis provided by deep neural networks capable of confidently identifying vibration patterns.
The solution can be applied to many different types of tires in a variety of monitoring applications.
As tires are the only parts of the car that directly contact the road, the analysis of in-tire vibration sensor data determines the road condition for better grip control. VibroSense can inform the car’s Advance Driver Assistance System and other systems – such as Electronically Controlled Suspension and Anti-lock Braking System – about ice on the road or a pavement change in just a few microseconds, enhancing driving safety.
“The Tire Monitoring application of VibroSense has shown high performance, around 95% accuracy in detecting road conditions. VibroSense can be used in many ways. For example, to obtain tire wear data or indicate wheel imbalance issues, to avoid fuel inefficiency,” said Eugene Zetserov, POLYN Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. “VibroSense demonstrates how NASP can be applied locally to signal data to efficiently provide real-time critical information to various systems and services.”
VibroSense extracts unique vibration patterns from the sensor’s raw signal and passes the valuable data only for classification at the next compute point, saving power consumption for Tire Monitoring Systems (TMS).
As part of the VibroSense Tire Monitoring solution, POLYN has built a facility for tire data collection and is developing a library of vibration data patterns of various tire types, road surface conditions, pavements, levels of tire wear, and more.
“POLYN is working with several tire makers on proofs of concept and with sensor node manufacturers, to incorporate VibroSense in new-generation TMS nodes,” Zetserov added.
About POLYN
POLYN Technology (www.polyn.ai) is a fabless semiconductor company, offering ultra-low-power, high-performance Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP) technology, IP and Tiny AI chips based on NASP. POLYN’s Neural-Net-To-Chip automation tools support fast, cost-effective development of application specific solutions performing sensor data pre-processing on-device.