Unparalleled Situational Awareness: The Cross-Industry Applications Of LiDAR (Sensors USA 2018)

Quanergy is a leading developer of LiDAR sensors and 3D perception software, bundled for use across a wide variety of industries. From comprehensive security systems to automated industrial robots and connected roadways - LiDAR is poised to make a huge impact on the world as we know it. In this session, Dr. Louay Eldada will discuss how LiDAR can be used for 3D sensing across a range of use cases including: industrial automation, smart cities, and perimeter enforcement, and speak to how these applications will make our world safer, more connected, and more efficient.

Louay Eldada is CEO and co-founder of Quanergy Systems, Inc. Dr. Eldada is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and sold three businesses to Fortune 100 companies. Quanergy is his fourth start-up. Dr. Eldada is a technical business leader with a proven track record at both small and large companies and with 71 patents, is a recognized expert in quantum optics, nanotechnology, photonic integrated circuits, advanced optoelectronics, sensors and robotics. Prior to Quanergy, he was CSO of SunEdison, after serving as CTO of HelioVolt, which was acquired by SK Energy. Dr. Eldada was earlier CTO of DuPont Photonic Technologies, formed by the acquisition of Telephotonics where he was founding CTO. His first job was at Honeywell, where he started the Telecom Photonics business and sold it to Corning. He studied business administration at Harvard, MIT and Stanford, and holds a Ph.D. in optical engineering from Columbia University.

Quanergy is the leader in 3D sensing. The company's 3D time-of-flight LiDAR sensors are designed from the ground up to meet all six key commercialization criteria: price, performance, reliability, size, weight, and power efficiency. Quanergy's innovations, covered by 13 patents, address the needs in various markets for 3D LiDAR sensors and LiDAR-based sensing systems. Quanergy delivers robust and intelligent real-time 3D mapping solutions that work day and night, rain or shine, while performing object detection, tracking, identification, and classification. In the automotive space, affordable LiDAR sensors enable broad deployment of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving systems - 80% of transportation accidents are avoidable with this technology, and Quanergy is bringing it to the masses.