Future Mobility Campus Ireland is proud to share that we have received funding under the Smart Regions Scheme to build out our range of automotive data services. The funding supports three key innovations:
- Sensor integration
- Data processing
- Digital Twin simulation
Sensor Integration for Data Capture
With the integration and calibration of new sensor technologies like camera, LiDAR, or GPS, FMCI can offer a new ground truthing service to customers. The service is twofold: customers can either use the FMCI facilities to test their own sensing technology or use the data sets collected through our vehicles to develop their technology. Collaborating with customers on data procurement helps uncover trends in advanced land mobility.
FMCI ensures correct data collection standards to deliver usable insights. The road data is then used to assist safe driving efforts in urban areas. With data pooled from several sensors across trials, subsequent algorithms can then be generalised across weather conditions, vehicle types, locations, landscapes, and road markings, using data for road safety.
Data Processing, Management, and Packaging
The newly integrated sensors capture large volumes of complex data, which require sophisticated processing techniques. Expanded data processing capabilities allows FMCI to provide useful information to our clients. This process involves filtering, anonymising, decoding, and optimising the raw data. We can then offer customers specific data sets on existing FMCI smart city infrastructure, based on their research needs.
Data is securely stored on the FMCI servers, hosted in our on-premise data centre. This ensures privacy for our service users. The collected road data can also be packeted and transferred to a cloud server at customers’ request.
Digital Twin Simulation Environment
Using the real-time data collected by sensors in the physical world, companies collaborating with FMCI can then benefit from a virtual representation to model, monitor, analyse, and optimise their performance. These Digital Twin cities are used to test and implement solutions in a virtual space before deploying them in the real world, which proves more sustainable and efficient.
With funding from the Smart Regions Scheme, FMCI has developed a sophisticated digital simulation of our smart city infrastructure and systems. There, we can offer a variety of environments to test in, like streets and intersections under different traffic, weather, and visibility conditions. Connecting FMCI to a larger trend of using digital technology to enhance urban development, this simulated yet real-world environment helps place FMCI at the forefront of automative digital twin technology in Europe.
Key Impacts and Benefits
The extended automotive service range helps us build out our state-of-the-art infrastructure to increase the scope of what is possible at our campus and for advanced mobility in Ireland. These technological developments position FMCI as a specialist facility among European automative testbeds. In turn, this standing provides additional opportunities to collaborate with industry leaders and avid academics, ultimately feeding our mission of stimulating research, development, and innovation.
Interested in any of the services listed above? Learn more about our vehicle data capture services, or contact us today.
FMCI’s Automotive Data Services are co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Southern, Eastern, & Midland Regional Programme 2021-2027.
