If you are providing data logging solutions to your customers, you have probably mastered the art the of delivering high-quality hardware features. While your customers have come to rely on your data logging solutions, they do not have access to a robust high-quality software stack for data logging. In most cases, they must acquire services from third-party providers or commit inhouse resources to develop the integration of these solutions. With a partnership with dSPACE, you can now offer your customers a complete turnkey solution, reducing both the cost of deploying data logging solutions and the time it takes to have mature data capturing vehicles on the road.
Challenges of Data Logging
When dealing with data logging, you are faced with a whole range of challenges. The high cost of data logging is just one of many stumbling blocks. Sensor fusion and synchronization also present a challenge, as multisensor configurations require accurate time-stamping and synchronization of sensor data. Another hurdle is performance, which requires high throughput with large data bandwidths, which can be difficult to achieve. To ensure compatibility and efficiency over time, it is also important to constantly keep up with changing sensor technology. Finally, data formats also pose a challenge, as they require flexibility to log data in different formats as needed. These challenges are easily handled with the robust software stack for data logging offered by dSPACE.
RTMaps: Short Profile
With RTMaps (Real-Time Multisensor applications) from Intempora, a dSPACE group company, you can acquire, time-stamp, synchronize, and process data from a variety of sensors and vehicle buses. These functionalities will take your data logger to the next level.
RTMaps provides an intuitive graphical user interface that allows you to easily drag & drop I/O interfaces, for example for visual sensors, filters, and other components, from extensive libraries to define inputs, outputs, and data processing steps in an application. User-specific functions can be easily integrated.
- Low-code development and deployment of logging applications
- Support for 600+ sensors from leading sensor manufacturers (Sony, Velodyne, Hesai, SICK, etc) out-of-the-box.
- Support of all the major data formats (ROSbags, MDF4, MCAP, PCAP, etc.)
- Smart data logging – eradicating the recording of unusable data, hence reducing storage cost
- Pretriggered and triggered logging based on predefined triggers
RTMaps ensures accurate synchronized real-time logging with minimal configuration for lidar, radar, cameras, GPS, IMU, or CAN/Ethernet buses, among others.
What our customers say
Using RTMaps middleware and SBG Systems, we are able to efficiently design reliable, optimized localization and navigation algorithms for the redundant, real-time systems that drive our autonomous trucks, flatbeds, and shuttles.
RTMaps is a tool that can easily and effectively synchronize data from many sensors for ADAS, such as lidar, cameras, ADASIS v3.0 map, GNSS, etc. This is crucial for us because we are developing the complex navigation solution for autonomous driving systems.
For us, RTMaps is the right software for capturing, accurately time-stamping, synchronizing, processing, and forwarding the measurement values from our sensors.
With RTMaps, we control extensive, complex sensor data and can use it in a targeted and synchronized way to efficiently develop and validate our algorithms.
Using RTMaps improves the efficiency of algorithm development by more than 50%. This shortens the time to market.
The graphical development environment based on block diagrams makes it easy to recognize the entirety and details of the main program and subprograms, reducing software errors and allowing system design, verification, and utilization in a short time. Signal monitoring is relatively simple, even when the number of sensors and their connection points is large.
Partner with Us
When you partner with us, you will benefit from many advantages that can significantly enhance your data logging hardware:
You will receive special access to RTMaps Developer Studio licenses, for integrating RTMaps into your data logger. Additionally, we provide technical support and training to onboard your teams quickly and ensure their long-term success. Our partnership includes joint go-to-market activities and faster proof of concepts (POCs). You will also benefit from native integration with dSPACE HIL and SIL tools, enabling seamless end-to-end workflows. Finally, we offer the ability to create a turnkey solution for your customers, combining both hardware and software into a comprehensive package.
Get in touch with us to discuss the various partnership options available to you.
Peter Ngure
Product Manager, Automated Driving & Software Solutions, dSPACE GmbH
Tel.: +49 5251 1638-4105
E-Mail: pngure@dspace.de
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