Ouster Launches Digital Lidar Perception Platform Ouster Gemini

Cloud-backed perception platform for crowd analytics, security, and intelligent transportation systems delivers enhanced detection and classification performance while simplifying installation and monitoring operations

Ouster, a leading provider of high-resolution digital lidar sensors for the automotive, industrial, robotics, and smart infrastructure industries, announced the launch of Ouster Gemini, its cloud-backed digital lidar perception platform for crowd analytics, security, and intelligent transportation systems.

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“Through a robust software offering, we aim to drive faster lidar adoption, build new revenue streams, and accelerate the growth of our business. Ouster Gemini is a powerful first step in what can be a major inflection point for our company.”

Ouster Gemini offers the ability to detect, classify, and track moving objects in real-time using the 3D data from a single or multiple fused Ouster lidar sensors. Combined with a custom or third-party analytics solution, customers can gather key insights and act on alerts to improve safety and security, enhance the guest experience, boost revenue, and simplify operations.

Customer Benefits

• More accurate and complete data with continuous situational awareness of pedestrian and vehicle traffic up to 90 meters away, in all weather and lighting conditions, on a single screen.
• Simplifies operations with fewer sensors at lower cost than camera-based systems. Quickly install the system, visualize real-time data, and set automated alerts to reduce physical operating costs and false alarms.
• Preserves privacy by accurately tracking people and vehicles through space without collecting personally identifiable data, mitigating the privacy and liability concerns that come with cameras.

Key Features and Capabilities

• Object detection and classification: Accurate detection, counting, and tracking of hundreds of objects such as pedestrians, cars, trucks, and bicycles
• Continuous monitoring: Create custom event zones for analytics and security and alerts to simplify operations
• Replay critical events: Simple, intuitive interface with recording and playback functionality that can be triggered based on events in a monitored area
• Ease of development: API supports easy data integration with existing software solutions and third party analytics tools
• Digital lidar optimized: Designed for fixed installations using any Ouster OS series sensor

Ouster Gemini combines Ouster’s advanced digital lidar sensors with state-of-the-art machine learning and direct input from a select set of early users to bring the power of digital lidar to smart infrastructure applications and offer more feature-rich capabilities to Ouster’s hundreds of customers.

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Initial Customers: Select customers were provided early access to Ouster Gemini to use the perception platform in live deployments across the U.S. and Europe to improve retail operations, security, and roadway safety. Within intelligent transportation systems, Cisco is using Ouster Gemini, together with the Cisco Edge Intelligence Software, as part of its connected roadway solutions to provide a state-of-the-art detection solution for all road users and provide real-time safety alerts. This combined solution is being deployed in two U.S. states. Within crowd analytics, Digital Mortar is using Ouster Gemini in a new convenience store model in New York and New England, analyzing the full customer journey from outside pump or park to inside store purchases. OpenSpace Group is also using Ouster Gemini for crowd analytics to understand passenger flow and boost customer experience at Euston train station in London. Cubic, another leader in intelligent transportation systems, is using Ouster Gemini in conjunction with its Gridsmart computer vision system to enhance pedestrian and vulnerable road user safety.

“Ouster Gemini is the start of a new stage for Ouster’s business. By shifting into software sales, we expect to transform the nature of our customer relationships, evolving from supplying cutting edge hardware to partnering with our customers to deliver compelling solutions,” said Ouster CEO Angus Pacala. “Through a robust software offering, we aim to drive faster lidar adoption, build new revenue streams, and accelerate the growth of our business. Ouster Gemini is a powerful first step in what can be a major inflection point for our company.”