Needham, United States – Worsening macroeconomic conditions have led a reduction in the outlook for global smart home device shipments according to the international data corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker. Worldwide shipments of smart home devices are now expected to decline 2.6% in 2022 to 874 million units with smart speakers and video entertainment devices such as TV and streaming devices facing the brunt of the decline. (more…)

December 28, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Santa Clara, United States – Borqs Technologies, Inc., a global provider of 5G wireless, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, and clean energy, announced the company has received a letter dated December 13, 2022 from the Department of the Treasury on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) stating that the company is required to negotiate with CFIUS to fully divest its ownership interests and rights in Holu Hou Energy LLC due to HHE solar energy storage system and EnergyShare technology for Multi-dwelling residential units (“MDU’s”) being deemed a critical technology and therefore a potential national security risk. (more…)

December 26, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

20 December 2022 – Motorola Solutions has announced it has received Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certification from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for its Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-compliant Avigilon video security solutions. Motorola Solutions’ Avigilon Control Centre (software release version 7) and H5A Series cameras have gone through rigorous interoperability testing from a JITC lab approved by the Department of Defense (DoD). (more…)

Posted by: Shriya Raban

Nuki, the European market provider of smart access solutions, has launched a accessory that ensures faster, more secure and convenient unlocking of smart doors. The Nuki Keypad 2.0 opens a Nuki Smart Lock via a 6-digit entry code or now as a new feature using fingerprint recognition. The Nuki Keypad 2.0 is equipped with Fingerprints´ sensor FPC1025 and can store up to 20 fingerprints. On top of that, 200 individual entry codes can be assigned. (more…)

December 16, 2022

Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar

Paris, France and Tel Aviv, Israel – Innoviz Technologies, a technology provider of high-performance, solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software, announced its partnership with Outsight. Outsight’s Spatial Intelligence software, the company’s real-time edge processing and cloud capability platform, offers a plug-and-play solution for effectively integrating 3D LiDAR data into any infrastructure, industrial or vehicle application.

Outsight’s Software, together with Innoviz’s LiDAR products will aim to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of 3D LiDAR technology beyond the ADAS market –

Innoviz’s high-performance LiDAR sensors meet the automotive industry’s requirements for performance and safety. They are purpose-built to be rugged, affordable, reliable, lightweight, high-performing and integrable, and are ideally suited to enable a wide range of non-automotive use-cases that require mature solutions.

Outsight’s Spatial Intelligence Software makes LiDAR technology easier to use in any project, both in real-time (edge processing) and the cloud, including essential features like LiDAR SLAM, object detection and tracking, classification and segmentation. As a recognised provider of the LiDAR processing software category and a founding member of the LiDAR Coalition, of which Innoviz is also a founding member, Outsight’s solutions have been widely embraced in a number of markets and dozens of different use cases throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and the Middle East.

“We aren’t in the early days of LiDAR anymore. At that time demonstration-level sensor prototypes and research-level algorithms were sufficient to ignite the market and gave birth to the current leaders in LiDAR hardware and software. Non-automotive markets that will deploy LiDAR at scale require a whole new level of maturity, with high-performing and reliable hardware like Innoviz’s LiDAR sensors, combined with scalable and easy to use software solutions like Outsight’s.” says Raul Bravo, president co-founder of Outsight. “We’re glad to be working with Innoviz on innovative offerings thanks to the complementary technology and talent of both organisations.”

“Our award-winning LiDAR technology is already being used to monitor pedestrian safety in Los Angeles, improve operational efficiency and safety across shipping ports in China, automate crane systems on construction sites in Japan and more,” says Omer Keilaf, co-founder and CEO of Innoviz. “We’re excited to partner with Outsight to continue to accelerate adoption of our LiDAR technologies and power use cases also across ITS, Smart infrastructure, smart industrial and more.”

Outsight will demonstrate the collaboration with Innoviz LiDAR during CES 2023 at Innoviz’s booth #6553 during the show dates, January 5-8, and will present the use-case with Innoviz LiDAR on Wednesday, January 5, 2pm, at Innoviz’s booth #6553, followed by a Q&A session.

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