Cepton launches high-speed Lidar sensor

First published at ITS America - June 7, 2019

William Muller of Cepton

Cepton Technologies launched a new high-speed LiDAR sensor that provides 1,200 scan lines per second aimed at high-speed vehicle scanning and profiling applications. According to Jerone Floor, principal software architect on the product, the LiDAR sensor is 40 times faster than the closest competitor.

Based on the company’s Micro Motion Technology (MMT), the SORA-P60 3D sensor allows traffic organisations to accurately scan and classify vehicles travelling at normal highway speeds. This improves accuracy of vehicle counting and classification while keeping roads open and traffic flowing.

The SORA-P60 3D can be packaged with Nividia’s Jetson TX2-based microcomputer to create a 3D visualisation of a point cloud data in near real time.

“Cepton’s SORA-P60’s three scan lines, each scanning at 400Hz, enables accurate scanning for advanced classification of objects traveling at highway speeds,” Floor said. “To put it in perspective, 400Hz translates to a scan line every five centimetres for an object traveling at 50 miles per hour. This means you can measure the size of a tow hitch and trailer on a vehicle traveling on a highway in real time.”

Officially launched this week, the new sensor is being tested in a highway tolling application in the US and will be generally available by the end of the summer.

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