Indeed, the geospatial world has been the beneficiary of the contact with companies like yours, because it turns out that because of the enormous investment in R&D, you’ve been building lidar sensors that have become smaller and lighter—both attractive in the geospatial world. 11. Definitely that’s a trend that’s cutting to accelerate across the board for sure. AG: Three or four years ago lidar was really an autonomous vehicle and an automotive story, and automotive drove a lot of the initial investments in the space. And, you know, that means if you are driving around in the night, you have huge risk that the systems completely fail because they have no ability to detect in the night as they’re all camera-based systems. © 2021 Spatial Media LLC—All rights reserved, 7820 Wormans Mill, Suite B-236 // Frederick, Maryland 21701, USA I think that’s the nature of Silicon Valley. I expect that trend to continue across many different applications, automotive and autonomous vehicles being just one of them. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Velodyne is known worldwide for its portfolio of breakthrough lidar sensor technologies. Software is a great addition to our hardware technology and gives us lots of growth. Shipping. As Velodyne is supplying the eyes of these machines, so to speak, I’m really proud to be part of that effort to help communities as best we can. AG: That’s definitely something that we continue to work on and think about a lot. I made the quantum leap to give you something that’s so attractive from a cost-point perspective that you can afford to put a couple of hundred dollars of lidar plus compute content even in a mid-tier car. From that perspective, it’s been like coming full circle to the things that I had worked on before. A big part of this change is to make purchasing Velodyne products easier for all customers. We did an interview with Cepton Technologies—I suppose they compete with you—and one of the points that they discussed is this issue of production scale, what you do in-house, what you outsource, how you find good firms to outsource to. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced a multi-year sales agreement with Blue City Technology, developer of a Smart City system for traffic monitoring.The Blue City Technology solution, equipped with Velodyne’s lidar sensors, helps improve road safety and mobility by providing real-time multi-modal traffic data and analytics to traffic lights. We want to continue to seed our technology into new and emerging applications for the usage of lidar. LM: 300 employees is big in the world of lidar! It’s obviously true in North America, Europe and the Middle East as well as in Asia-Pacific. LM: It’s quite remarkable. This is something that happens in many industries but canning the whole front office is a bit less common. So while it’s been, of course, a challenging time for all businesses, including ours, this has kept us very passionate and motivated, seeing our customers coming to the forefront in many of these different applications. That’s easily good enough. Sound off - what do you think? Velodyne Acoustics, Inc. first gained a lot of traction in our industry years ago with a line of higher-end, technologically sophisticated subwoofers created by engineer and founder David Hall. Marta Hall, Velodyne president, will focus her attention on sales and marketing for the company’s audio division. Here is the core quote from the statement emailed to its reps: "Our decisions are not made lightly and we are making every effort to much consideration, we are terminating our relationship with all of our As I said, for a magazine such as ours to gain access to C-level executives in a leading company is much appreciated. You can build a very low-performance lidar that’s very easy to manufacture. Mr. If the manufacturer used distributors, they may stop their relationship because some distributors may not be as strong with A/V as they are with some of the other lines they sell, like white goods (appliances). AG: The common thread is a series of industries that are at an inflection point, going from what I would call the research and development phase to the commercialization phase across many different applications. I am an electrical and electronics engineer by training and have spent all my career doing that. AG: There’s two ways to think about the software itself. AG: I am very excited about the fact that we already have a significant number of customers—more than 50, I think. For some of the other companies in this space, it’s been a challenging time as well. I was impressed reading your your website, you’re obviously intensely active, with expansion, growth in markets, growth in partnerships, growth in product range. 118 Vintage Park Boulevard, Suite W-222. That’s what we have been doing for many years. After receiving a repair bill of nearly $500(Almost Half the price paid! LM: Yes, indeed—the CEO of Cepton said very similar words to me. Velodyne kinda was an ID company by the time they went out of business. But it’s been a good transition and that’s been my journey. The optical transceivers stuff comes in handy for sure. That means that you can fly almost at the regulatory maximum height and that sensor will still work. Comment in our forums below. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced a multi-year partnership agreement with Outsight, the company that is a leading innovator in Smart Cities monitoring. There are so many different types of lidar needed for so many different applications. How do you see things going for the rest of this year and then in the future? 3 American Automobile Association: https://www.aaa.com/AAA/common/aar/files/Research-Report-Pedestrian-Detection.pdf. And the acoustics brand was sold off to another company in 2019. AG: No, not anymore. LM: Yes, indeed. That’s what allows us to be able to get economies of scale and leverage it. LM: Anand, thank you for talking to us today. SO far all of the following lines are (apparently) available for purchase, some of which have, to-date, never seen the light of the Internet: David Hall, the newly active CEO, was quoted as saying "After careful evaluation of how we get our And I think we will continue to grow and serve a broad base of customers to the best of our ability. I believe they were only selling from their website. Either way, it's usually a matter of having better control over who sells their products and who's accountable for their success or failure. LM: Your PhD was from Rochester Institute of Technology, in the area of RF data? Some of the first projects I worked on were such systems, bringing passive optical networking systems to the home. Those very interesting conversations have started because of development. For example, there was interesting work by IIHS2 and AAA3 last year. And the acoustics brand was sold off to another company in 2019. I guess that’s just private industry, isn’t it, particularly in Silicon Valley? As this continues, it will be a very exciting, intense and busy time for us as a business. You talk about Emesent, which we know quite well in the geospatial world. It really has allowed us to break open of a variety of new applications around lidar. AG: Exactly. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced a sales ... invented real-time surround view lidar systems in 2005 as part of Velodyne Acoustics. Dealers and resellers will still have access to dealer pricing and will be able to receive that pricing via the web upon checkout. So I think it’s a pretty exciting time for the lidar business in general. Think of a highway autopilot, that kind of functionality enabled by lidar. To take on the value-oriented ID market will take some bold steps. Now we know that we have understood the manufacturing, we are better deployed with mass-manufacturing partners. And then eventually, as the prices come down, it makes its way into the big tier and the lower tier segment. We were building radio frequency transceivers for many different applications. I attended a webinar run by the organizers of the Intergeo trade show and conference in Germany, about what various companies were doing to try to help the fight against covid-19. A key portion of the strategy is being able to create these long-term relationships with customers as they scale. The breadth of the portfolio has helped us and we leverage that to be able to serve our customers well across all the different lidar needs. Thank you very much for giving so generously of your time. He’s passionate about the technology, has a vision for the business and really wants to see his technology proliferate in all of these different applications. Clint Deboer was terminated from Audioholics for misconduct on April 4th, 2014. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced a multi-year ... Vice President of Business Development, Velodyne ... invented real-time surround view lidar systems in 2005 as part of Velodyne Acoustics. And David’s heart is inventing the technology and seeing the vision. UPDATE - Here is an informal statement from a Velodyne spokesman regarding the change: Velodyne is still maintaining its relationships with dealers, retailers and distributors. Stewart is the Managing Editor of the magazine. The following is a rundown of their features and differences: Digital Drive Plus 10 Inch: This speaker has a 1250 … A DD18+ equals a Rythmik F18 above a certain point, but the Rythmik beats it down low. So that’s why he made that the change [to chairman]. Velodyne is back in business!!! David Hall and Velodyne get a good write-up in there. The co-marketing efforts, as well as the education efforts around the technology, increase and speed up societal acceptance of the customers and technology. They found that, for many of the cars, the systems barely worked in daytime and did a very poor job of detecting pedestrians and bicyclists. That is key because I think we have had a track record of being able to deliver this technology into these customer applications. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced a three-year agreement with TLD, a global leader in ground support equipment. And of course, lidar has come a long way since then. Then, all these years later, I come to Velodyne and am working on technology that’s finding a lot of applications in automotive. SAN JOSE, Calif.- Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced a multi-year partnership agreement with Outsight, the company that is a leading innovator in Smart Cities monitoring. The autonomous industry is a really dynamic industry. Our customers are transitioning and the business is transitioning from providing technology for research and development projects, to being able to provide mass market technology to all these different applications that are actually going out into the field. AG: Right. I use to own the VRP12 when it 1st came out. Velodyne Acoustics has named George Ross as general manager, previously director of marketing for the audio company’s real-time LiDAR sensors. Velodyne Lidar, Inc. announced a multi-year sales ... Vice President of Business Development, Velodyne ... invented real-time surround view lidar systems in 2005 as part of Velodyne Acoustics. There’s many interesting conversations happening. We are very excited to see the growth not just in the automotive space, but actually far more in the small robotics space as well. And you’re doing the same. Even your eight-thousand-dollar Puck is a little bit of a worry to put on a five-thousand-dollar UAV in case it crashes! AG: Yes, we are we are seeing a tremendous growth in markets. products to our customers, we determined that we can be more effective That creates a very deep trust relationship with our customers, which allows them to have the confidence that, as we move to this next phase of lidar adoption, we will be able to continue to scale and meet their needs. And then some of them, for example, Agrointelli, are sales agreements. LM: Yes, that will be an interesting program that will grow and grow as time passes. It’s created a very nice ecosystem around the lidar technology. His hope is that Velodyne can "reinvent itself The only thing going away is independent sales reps. It seems short-sighted in some ways but they don't need to worry about sharing one rep firm with several speaker manufacturers, either. Article content. UPDATE - Here is an informal statement from a Velodyne spokesman regarding the change: Velodyne is still maintaining its … So there’s a bit of a difference—four orders of magnitude. So now we are no longer making subwoofers. So I presume Velodyne is involved as well. 4 Jon Barad, vice president of business development at Velodyne, pointed us to this blog for further information on the program: https://velodynelidar.com/blog/automated-with-velodyne-ecosystem-video/. The Automated with Velodyne program allows us to be able to deeply engage with our customers on these activities and accelerate the adoption of their end technology into their markets, which obviously is a great benefit to us as well. AG: Broadly speaking, this dovetails into the strategy that I was just telling you about. Outsight uses Velodyne Lidar sensing technology in its 3D Semantic Camera system that helps businesses and governments improve the analysis and management of people flow and assets in large crowded environments. That whole trend has accelerated the acceptance of small robotics in society and lidar is playing a key role to make those systems successful. You can go for something, maybe a thousand-dollar price-point. The Velodyne DEQ-15R 15-Inch Powered Subwoofer - 1500 Watts of Dynamic Power at Your Command There's nothing small about the DEQ-15R 15-inch powered subwoofer when it comes to power or performance. In the context of automotive, up until now, we’ve gotten lidars to a few hundred dollars, where the automotive OEMs were thinking about lidar as still starting off in the luxury car segment. There’s your relationship with GeoSlam. And I think David is still an inventor at heart. LM: Now, I completely understand that you don’t want to answer any questions about your financial numbers because your company is privately held. So we continue to see traction for level four, level five systems. Can you imagine what you could do, even in a mid-tier car, to make the car much safer for the occupants as well as for the general public around them? As we try to solve all these different applications going into commercialization, we have come to the recognition that there is a need for a broad portfolio. David and I spent a lot of time thinking about technology strategy and business strategy over these years, which enabled the transition to CEO. The Company offers cabinet style, in-wall, in-floor, and in-ceiling speakers, as well as subwoofers. And that was going to be in my next question, how that fitted in. And I think we will continue to expand our footprint globally and impact both directly and indirectly all these different companies which are working with us, buying our product, manufacturing our product and supplying subsystems into our applications. AG: We are seeing a lot of our customers, especially in the small robotics space, develop and deploy solutions to help communities to deal with these issues. Those days, Bluetooth was the new “in thing” and we were building Bluetooth transceivers. Highlights of a few of Velodyne Lidar’s exciting partners that have recently joined the Automated with Velodyne™ program. And they never worked in the night. Audio Reference of Germany purchased the subwoofer company lock, stock and barrel. You could put a couple of one-hundred-dollar lidars on and not worry about it. AG: The breadth of product portfolio is a key part of our strategy, because all the different applications we serve cannot be satisfied with a single technology. AG: Exactly. 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