Flex, Caruma to Deliver AI-Powered, Vision-Based Automotive Interior Systems

AGM Automotive, a leading global developer and supplier of automotive interiors and consoles – recently acquired by Flex – has entered into a joint development and licensing agreement with Caruma Technologies, Inc., an Intelligent Connected-Vehicle Platform company, to develop AI-powered, vision-based interior systems for automakers, as announced at Internet of Things World in Santa Clara, CA.
 
The two companies will collaborate on the integration of AGM’s Intelligent Interior System with Caruma’s system empowering the automotive data platform, which combines artificial intelligence, computer vision and big data analytics – the underlying technologies found in self-driving cars – to alert drivers of unsafe driving behaviors, roadway hazards and vehicle security risks.
 
Chris Obey, president of Automotive at Flex, said, “One of the specific reasons Flex acquired AGM was for the enhanced ability to develop collaborative industry synergies such as this partnership with Caruma. We believe our automotive OEM customers will be very interested in the advanced technologies resulting from these collaborations.”
 
Flex intends to offer the Intelligent Interior System to automakers for integration into new vehicles and for aggregating anonymized data on driving patterns, road infrastructure changes and traffic congestion to ramp up their autonomous vehicle strategies.
 
The Caruma platform connects cameras and sensor hardware to a continuous learning cloud and an artificial intelligence powered vehicle network, which ‘learns’ behavioral patterns of drivers and passengers, situational factors external to the vehicle and road infrastructural changes.
 
Flex, AGM and Caruma anticipate their advanced hardware technology and AI, computer vision based software platform to be available to automakers by Q4 2017.