Gasgoo Awards 2022 Annual Most Growth Value Award applicant: Tsingcar

For the Gasgoo Awards 2022, Tsingcar has applied for the 2022 Annual Most Growth Value Award.

Photo credit: Tsingcar

Enterprise Name: Tsingcar

Main Business in Auto Industry

As an expert in UWB vehicle solutions, Tsingcar focuses on location service in intelligent connected vehicles. Based on years technology deposition, Tsingcar provides digital keys, in-car radar, intelligent location and other technologies. As long as you carry a mobile phone or a smart watch, you can have safe, accurate and convenient keyless entry and start of a car, as well as personalized human-vehicle interaction experience. In the real car environment, the performance of accuracy is up to 0.1m in various scenarios. By multiplexing the UWB hardware placed in the vehicle, the anchors function as UWB radar to detect kicking movements accurately and open the trunk automatically. It can also monitor the status of vital signs in the vehicle in real time for living body detection.

Founder Background

Zhao Ruixiang, male, Master degree of Tsinghua University, led the research and development team of Tsinghua alumni, invented 0.1 meter accuracy positioning scheme based on wireless technology, and obtained several national patents. He led the technical team from Tsinghua University and social business talents, founded the domestic new technology enterprise Tsingcar (Beijing) Technology Co., LTD., served as the chairman and general manager, he successfully carried out industrialization, and Tsingcar now cooperates with a number of OEMs and becomes the technological leader in the field of UWB digital key in China.

Mr. Zhao has not only made achievements in project research and development and commercial operation of the company, but also led the team to actively voice in the international standards organization. As the only two Chinese company among the more than ten voting members of UWB global Standards Alliance (the other Chinese company is Xiaomi). As a representative, the applicant actively promoted the adoption of international standards such as High-Accuracy Location Services. He has more than 80 patents and is the first inventor of 80% of those patents.

Overall Corporate Strength

1. R&D capabilities: 

Tsingcar focuses on location service in intelligent connected vehicles. Based on years technology deposition, Tsingcar provides digital keys, in-car radar, intelligent location and other technologies. The company has nearly 300 team members, more than half of which are technical R&D personnel. The core product R&D team mainly comes from well-known universities such as Tsinghua University. The company is the only Chinese UWB solution provider in the global UWB Alliance, one of the top ten voting members of the global FIRA Alliance, and a member of CCC, global Car Connectivity Consortium, has participated in the compilation of ICCE UWB digital key standards.

2. Core technical team profile：

Zhang Xiyang

Tsinghua University

Master of Electronic and Communication Engineering

Head of Hardware

7 years experience in hardware architecture/development/design of RF communication system, 6 years experience in design and development of overall architecture / algorithm / hardware and software of wireless positioning system, 5 years experience in software and hardware project development and management

Yin Zuobiao

Tsinghua University

Master of Science in Instrumental Science and Technology

Head of Algorithm

5 years experience in system design and algorithm research in localization field

Qiu Youbin

Tsinghua University

Master of Science in Control Science and Engineering

Head of Software

3 years experience in overall design and software development of large-scale information system, 6 years of wireless positioning system algorithm design/software architecture/system design and development experience, 4 years experience in positioning software product planning and management

Zheng Qiang

Tsinghua University

Master of Science in Instrumental Science and Technology

Senior Engineer

7 years of experience in the design and implementation of high-precision positioning system and peripheral information system, with experience in the whole process of dozens of large-scale projects

3. Supporting and Cooperation:

Tsingcar has established contacts with over 40 major OEMs at home and abroad, and has deep cooperation in specific landing projects. In 2022 and 2023, there will be mass production models equipped with our UWB technology.

4. Patents or other credentials:

Invention name: Positioning method, device and system based on ultra-wideband

Patent Number: 201910854335.2

Core Products/Technologies

1. Product Name: UWB Digital Key (Already won the bid, and mass production to launch at the end of 2022)

2. Technical Description:

UWB Digital Key - PEPS based on UWB technology with accurate positioning, real-time response, safety and convenience and simplified driving process.In general, the positioning accuracy is up to 10cm in open areas, the typical accuracy of vehicle density or multi-diameter environments is up to 30cm, and sub-areas outside the vehicle can be accurately identified.

Established UWB intelligent entry scheme - software and algorithm systems: 

Positioning service: UWB High Precision Positioning Services

Area detection service: recognition of sub-areas outside the car and judge the state of entering or leaving the car

Controller: Interacts with the UWB main controller and outputs PEPS application information

BLE connection: BLE activation and interaction of system initialization parameters

UWB Safe Ranging: STS-based UWB ranging

3. Unique advantages：

(1) Positioning accuracy: The highest positioning accuracy of 0.1m is more than 10 times higher than that of traditional Bluetooth

(2) Real-time response: millisecond response speed, to meet the needs of various types of positioning application timeliness

(3) High security: Based on STS security ranging, effectively prevent relay attacks

(4) Wider coverage: The high-precision position perception range outside the car exceeds 20 meters, supporting more scenarios

(5) Strong compatibility: Fully support for CCC and ICCE digital key protocols

4. Application Scenarios：

The car key based on UWB technology has higher positioning accuracy. Tsingcar not only accomplishes the verification test in the laboratory environment, but also tackles the challenges of various complex scenarios to UWB positioning technology to the ground, and achieves the performance of up to 0.1m accuracy in various scenarios in the real vehicle environment.

Tsingcar not only realizes the digital key based on UWB technology, but also realizes the UWB radar function by reusing the UWB hardware of the car end, and the high-sensitivity UWB radar algorithm can accurately detect the kicking action to realize the automatic opening of the trunk, it can also monitor the status of vital signs in the car in real time, remind users of babies and pets left in car, and realize intelligent live detection.

Enterprise Future Development Prospect

Low-cost cabin radar: By reusing the uwb hardware on the end of the car, the vital signs status in the car can be detected in real time, including dynamic human movements and static human breathing, and remind users of infants and pets left in car, and realize intelligent live detection. Based on the high-sensitivity UWB radar algorithm, the left rear or right rear anchor point of the car can be reused to accurately detect the kicking action to achieve automatic opening of the trunk.

High-precision local positioning: Based on Tsingcar's UWB anchor multiplexing technology and ultra-credible position perception algorithm, it can realize high-precision positioning of automobiles in underground garages, substations, tunnels, overpasses, urban satellite blind spots and other locations, the accuracy is up to 0.1 meters. Intelligent location services provide an effective decision-making basis for AVP and autonomous driving control vehicles, and open up the "front-end kilometer" of automatic driving.

At present, Tsingcar has established contacts with over 40 major OEMs at home and abroad, and has deep cooperation in specific landing projects. In 2022 and 2023, there will be mass production models equipped with our UWB technology.