In 2000, the Carsense European project, gathering industries (FIAT, BMW, Renault, Thales, Ibeo) and research labs (INRIA, LIVIC...) looked for a digital data logger and chose a solution developed by the "Centre de robotique de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris" : RTMaps. The objective was the perception of the objects around a moving vehicle.The approach was based on a combination of sensors and datafusion: vidéos, sounds, speed, GPS...
It was the first use of RTMaps and its contribution to the project' success was manifest.
The software is now the property of Intempora. RTMaps is adopted by important industrial groups (Renault, PSA, Valeo...) and by national and European projects (Arcos, Puvame, REACT...).

An innovative solution

Time and measurement play an essential part in the industrial and robotics applications: hence RTMaps precisely dates all data at their time of acquisition. This dating process provides a complete data flow control during the data processing and replaying. It makes it possible, in particular, to control priority flows and to synchronize the data to be fused. These characteristics are used in the laboratories: the data and "scenarios" resulting from real conditions measurements are submitted to the prototype. During the tests, situations and behaviors can be recorded and analysed later. Reproducing a situation is thus possible. RTMaps makes easy the link between real and virtual worlds.
An intuitive graphical interface, associated to a reliable and robust technology, makes RTMaps an efficient tool for R&D productivity. This software offers more: a tool to tackle the most innovative projects (competitive sports, artistic applications...) or to enhance more traditional applications (devices technical studies, behavior, ergonomics, safety...).