Vehicle Touch Sense™ · For OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers
Cars can see and hear. Now they can feel the road.
Vehicle Touch Sense™ gives vehicle AI two new senses: touch and proprioception. It runs as software on signals your vehicles already produce. No added sensors, no batteries, no extra hardware.
Vehicle Touch Stream™ · liveTwo new senses for vehicle AI
Touch and the inner ear
Sense of touch
Reports what happens between the tyres and the road: grip, surface texture, damage and change. Sensitive enough to register a car crossing a painted zebra crossing.
Sense of proprioception
Tells the vehicle how it is moving: attitude, lean, g-forces and absolute speed. The way your body knows its position with your eyes closed.
Together they form a real-time physical truth that stays available when cameras and radar are blinded by weather and satellite positioning drops out.
The technology
From contact patch to vehicle AI
One technology family, one sensory channel, one new sense for the vehicle.
MAT – Mobility Artificial Tactiles™
The technology family behind Akselion's artificial senses.
Vehicle Touch Sense™
The vehicle's senses of touch and proprioception, built from existing signals.
Vehicle Touch Stream™
The sensory channel into the vehicle's AI. Direct input to multimodal neural networks, driver assistance and the cloud.
Capabilities
What Vehicle Touch Sense™ feels
Around 20 capabilities in five areas. Most are already in production in heavy transport.
Tyre
Tyre intelligence
Every tyre monitored continuously, without a sensor inside it.
- Tread wear in real timeIn productionWear estimated to hundredths of a millimetre
- Pressure without TPMS sensorsIn productionEvery tyre, even on a full trailer combination
- Temperature, type and fasteningIn production
- Carcass and belt damageIn production
- Impact logIn productionForce, location and time of every hit
- Detachment preventionBeta
Chassis
Chassis and posture
The vehicle's own condition and attitude, read from how it moves.
- Axle eventsIn production
- Attitude, g-forces and absolute speedIn production
- Brake condition and left/right balanceIn production
- Wheel bearing conditionIn production
- ABS sensor healthIn production
Road
The road surface
Grip, texture and damage, felt through the tyres as the car drives.
- Friction and slipperinessIn productionGrip measured in milliseconds at the contact patch
- Potholes and road damageIn production
- ~3 mm surface changesIn productionSensitive enough to feel a fresh zebra crossing
- Road surface temperatureComing
Positioning
Positioning and swarm
Location that keeps working where satellites can't reach. From underground all the way to Mars.
- Satellite-free positioningIn productionCentimetre-accurate
- Garages, tunnels and undergroundIn production
- Map enhancementIn production
- Swarm map layerIn productionMany vehicles, one shared picture of the road
Energy
Energy and powertrain
Insight down to the battery cell, whatever the powertrain.
- EV battery pack at cell levelIn production
- Energy use and economical drivingIn production
- Telltale and fault flagsIn production
For OEMs and Tier 1s
Why integrate Vehicle Touch Sense™
Zero hardware cost
Pure software. No batteries, no sensors, no mechanical points of failure.
Years ahead in R&D
Skip 5–10 years of development. The models are built on 150 million kilometres and ten years of operational data.
An anchor to reality
Physical truth about road, tyre, speed and location when cameras and radar are blinded by weather and GNSS is lost.
Scales over the air
One licence, deployed across the fleet through cloud and OTA updates. Any brand, any powertrain.
References
Proven in heavy transport
Vehicles running Akselion technology cover millions of kilometres every week.
Monitors 600+ buses, with a focus on correct tyre pressures and electric bus battery condition.
Enables wear-based tyre sales and an entirely new kind of customer data.
Road damage is found and fixed early. Early detection saves thousands of euros per case.
Engagement
How we work with OEMs and Tier 1s
Technical briefing
A confidential session on your platform, use cases and data access.
Evaluation
Vehicle Touch Sense™ runs on your vehicles' existing signals, so you see results on your own platform.
Licence and rollout
Software integration and over-the-air deployment across your fleet.
Ready to feel the difference?
Tell us about your vehicle platform and we'll show what Vehicle Touch Sense™ can add to it.
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