Full profile interview: Competitors
28 Nov 2024

Xavveo: A Photonics-Based Paradigm Shift for Radar
Zendar is working on distributed radar using simple 4Tx/4Rx, off-the-shelf radar units. It is partnered with NXP, which has developed a dedicated control box for the system and will help to bring the product to market.
Full profile interview
18 Nov 2024

Zendar: A Novel Approach to Radar Resolution
Zendar is an automotive radar start-up with a novel approach to increasing the resolution on radar. While many companies have focussed on increasing resolution with more transmitting and receiving channels, Zednar has pursued a virtual aperture approach, creating high performance for a low bill of materials.
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1 Nov 2024

Arbe: 4D Imaging Radar Leader
Zendar is an interesting start-up using a novel split antenna approach, creating a large virtual aperture and generating impressive azimuth angular resolution. It is currently partnered with NXP and using off-the-shelf components, but there is potential for Zendar and Arbe to partner in the future as their technologies are highly complementary.
Full profile interview: Competitors
19 Feb 2024

Altos: Cheaper 4D Imaging Radar
Zendar uses two low-end radars working together to replicate the performance of one much more powerful and more expensive radar. Its system also uses central ADAS processing.
Full profile interview: Competitors
30 May 2023

Nodar: Untethered Stereo Camera With LiDAR-Like Performance
Zendar uses a technique to create a large virtual antenna using two "satellite" radar units. These are placed on opposite sides of the vehicle and use the wide baseline to generate high-resolution data in the azimuth direction. However, without vertical separation, their vertical resolution is still limited.
Full profile interview: Competitors
2 Feb 2023

Plastic Omnium: Automotive Radar Built Into the Bumper
Zendar has the only other system that IDTechEx thinks is similar to this. Zendar uses cheap radar units working cooperatively with a central processor to create a large virtual aperture. They are able to get much higher resolution than a single, stand-alone unit. However, this requires at least two radars and a fairly powerful computer to process the information. It is therefore more expensive and less elegant than Plastic Omnium's approach. Plastic Omnium has not released performance metrics, so it will need to offer similar performance to be an easy win over Zendar.
Full profile interview
6 Jun 2022

Zendar: High Performance, Cheap Automotive Radar
Zendar is a start-up working on improving automotive radar. Zendar believes that current automotive radar is limited by the weak computational processing power embedded in the sensor. They suggest a move to a central processing unit with more computational power which can handle multiple radar front-ends at one time. This would be a similar architecture to Tesla in the way it handles its camera information.
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Full profile interview: Competitors
30 May 2022

Spartan Radar: Radar-Enhancing Software
Zendar is working on coherent and synthetic aperture approaches, in combination with super-resolution algorithms for radar. Zendar's approach is essentially hardware agnostic but requires a centralised sensor fusion architecture, which is not yet common in the automotive industry.