COMPREDICTs virtual sensors are changing the future of connected mobility
Summary
A quick reminder, hardware sensors in connected devices use physical or chemical effects to measure attributes like temperature, pressure, weight, distance, force, torque, speed, etc. The company, founded in 2016, spun out of thesis work from its founders at the University of Darmstadt with the collective culmination across the team of over 20 scientific publications focusing on durability engineering and modelling of vehicle dynamics and 10 patents and patent applications I wanted to know how the company was able to embed itself so successfully across the vehicle sector, which is traditionally slow to innovate, and startups can find themselves in a loop of pilots that never transcend to commercial product offerings. Last year, the company raised €6 million across two Series A funding rounds from investors like mobility-focused VC firm Vektor Partners and BlackBerry Limited. Today BlackBerry is a global provider of automotive software, with its QNX technology used by 24 of the top 25 EV OEMs and embedded in more than 215 million vehicles worldwide. The BlackBerry IVY platform, built in partnership with AWS, simplifies COMPREDICTs ability to manage large-scale OEM deployments of its in-vehicle predictive maintenance and diagnostics algorithms.
