Company Name: Syntronic (Beijing) Technology R&D Center Co., Ltd.
Project Name: 4D Imaging Millimeter-wave Radar Solution
Award Category: Innovation Sustainable Product
Product / Service Introduction
Syntronic's 4D imaging millimeter-wave radar solution provides high-resolution distance, speed, azimuth, and height information in a wide field of view. It has the ability to penetrate haze, fog, smoke, rain and snow, and has the ability to resist noise interference and multipath effects, which can be fully utilized to achieve precise detection and precise tracking. This solution can be used for real-time, low-latency target detection, classification and tracking of hundreds of stationary and moving targets, and is mainly used in weather detection, environmental monitoring, smart security, drones, automatic driving, industrial automation, medical care and other fields.
Explanation of Circular Economy Practice
Traditional radar is mainly divided into lidar and 3D millimeter wave radar. LiDAR is highly accurate but vulnerable to weather and can be expensive. 3D mmWave radar works around the clock, is cheap but has low resolution. Syntronic's 4D millimeter-wave radar solution has excellent all-weather performance and ultra-high accuracy, can achieve better image detection results, and complies with ETSI and FCC standards. In addition to the advantages of environmental perception, the production cost of 4D millimeter-wave radar is only 10-20% of that of lidar, which is convenient for mass production and application.
The application field of the program is very wide. In the environmental field, 4D millimeter-wave radar can be used for soil moisture detection, crop growth monitoring, and early warning of pests and diseases, providing information about the status of soil and vegetation. Animal conditions can also be monitored. In the field of security, 4D millimeter-wave radar can detect and track potential intruders to protect the safety of personnel and property. In the field of intelligent transportation, 4D millimeter-wave radar can provide real-time vehicle monitoring and tracking, which is convenient for traffic signal control, congestion monitoring and intelligent traffic management decision-making.
Overview of Product/Service Lifecycle
Product Design
Use millimeter-wave amplifier impedance matching, output power boost, phased array and other technologies to solve the difficulties in the development of 4D imaging radar.
Adopt low-loss and high-gain slotted waveguide antenna to solve the problem of product volume, power consumption and mutual interference between antennas, and ensure high resolution and optimal performance while reducing volume, and reduce loss.
Near-zero false alarm and false negative rates for low RCS targets like vulnerable road users.
Built-in hardware security module supports symmetric and asymmetric hardware encryption and decryption to ensure network security.
Production
Production planners control the availability of materials according to the process in the early stage of production, and guarantee the delivery time to save resources to the greatest extent.
The product strictly follows the quality management process in the production stage and meets the requirements of functional safety standards such as ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.
Useage
Configure the cloud management system to easily realize data sharing between different devices without setting up a dedicated server to store data.
Customized solutions for different application scenarios.
The product conforms to ETSI and FCC standards, and meets the specific requirements of each country to ensure product safety.
Recycling and Recovery
Recycle the electronic waste generated in the whole stage of product manufacturing and store it in designated locations, such as scrapped circuit boards, scrapped cables, scrap metal, aluminum scrap, etc. In order to ensure the environment and human health, the waste will be labeled with the name and handed over to the recycling company for disposal.
Syntronic provides professional maintenance and repair services. If the product is damaged or faulty during use, Syntronic can send experts to repair it, reducing the number of replacements.
The Specification of 4D Imaging Radar
The 4D imaging radar uses 77-81GHz millimeter wave and can output target range, target speed, target horizontal angle and target height information. Compared with the current mass-produced traditional vehicle mounted mmWave radar, the most important feature of 4D imaging radar is that it has higher resolution and can output the height information of the target. The height information can help the vehicle distinguish targets such as overpasses and manhole covers. In addition to altitude information, the 4D imaging radar has also expanded the maximum detection range to 300 meters, and the angular resolution has also been greatly improved.
The following figure shows the comparison of detection range and resolution between 4D imaging radar, lidar and traditional vehicle borne radar. It is obvious that 4D imaging radar not only maintains the robustness of traditional vehicle borne mmWave radar under different working conditions, but also improves the detection range and resolution. Based on the better resolution, the resolution and tracking ability of 4D imaging radar for targets have also been significantly improved, and its performance is closer to that of lidar. The most important thing is that it is not as susceptible to snow and fog and other bad weather as the traditional visual radar / lidar.
