TI DSPs power DriveCam's behavior-based risk mitigation solution

Bangalore: DriveCam Inc., a global driver risk management company, announced that it has integrated Texas Instruments Incorporated’s (TI) digital signal processors (DSP), analog components, microcontrollers (MCUs) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies into their behavior-based risk mitigation solution. DriveCam’s risk mitigation solution is used by distribution fleets worldwide to predict and prevent risky driving behaviors and save lives.

DriveCam’s event recorder and peripherals are governed by multiple TI processors including the ultra-low-power MSP430 processor and a multimedia-optimized DSP. The flexible and programmable TI DSP enables DriveCam to encode the video stream in compact MPEG4 format before wireless upload. Going forward, DriveCam’s RiskPredict algorithm will also be implemented to run on TI’s processor.

Peter Ellegaard, vice president, hardware and firmware engineering, DriveCam, said, “Texas Instruments provides not only the high-performing DSP that our solution needs at a reasonable price, but also the MCUs, analog and RFID components that allow DriveCam to differentiate its products in the market. Being able to use multiple components all from a single vendor allows us to speed our time-to-market and makes life easier on our design teams. In addition, we have received valuable support from TI during the development, ramp-up and product introduction,” he added, “Because TI offers a DSP integrated system-on-chip, it enables us to create a more compact system design for DriveCam’s event recorder. And since we are running a Linux kernel, it has been an easy integration to get Linux up and running on the processor because it works directly with existing Linux libraries.”

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