Transportation · Transit · Accessibility · Robotics
Guide vehicles and people.
Intelligent Material mixes into ordinary road paint, marking tape and floor coatings. To people they look the same; to a sensor they carry a code.
The problem
Why GPS and paint fall short.
GPS drifts.Satellite positions wander by meters and disappear in tunnels and urban canyons.
Cameras guess.Worn paint, glare, rain and snow make painted lines hard for vision systems to read.
People get left out.A blind traveler cannot see which corner or which bus stop they are at.
Our proof
Tested on real roads.
U.S. 11,667,799patent on coded road, floor and pad markings
FHWAGPS correction tested with the Federal Highway Administration
Pilotelectric-bus charging alignment, with NovaVera
Testbedsmart cane at the Ohio State School for the Blind
A sensor eight inches above the pavement read thin coded stripes at 50 mph. The markings go into standard paint, highway marking tape and thermoplastic, so crews apply them the way they apply lines today. Where our numbers come from →
Working with us
Three steps.
- Pick the jobpositioning, lane identity, bus alignment, guidance for the blind, drones or robots.
- Mark itwith coded paint or tape at the points that matter.
- Read itwith a low-cost near-infrared sensor on the vehicle, cane or robot.
Next step
Tell us what you are working on.
One short message is enough. We reply within two business days.
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