As we all know, heavy trucks have large volume and inertia, and once an accident occurs, it is a disaster. Truck drivers often say, "If you don't get into an accident, you will get into an accident and ruin three generations!" Due to the continuous development of the globalized economy, logistics, engineering, e-commerce and other industries have also developed rapidly, the demand for transportation is also increasing dramatically, the global production and sales of heavy-duty trucks year by year.

Rapidly growing demand, high accident rate, we are "love and hate" it, how to resolve this contradiction?

To resolve this contradiction, intelligence will play an extraordinary role. Putting ADAS/ DSM/ BSD on commercial heavy trucks relieves drivers' pressure from the source, so as to realize the optimal combination of safety, cost and efficiency, and let intelligent driving better promote the development of the industry.

At present, the heavy truck industry is at the juncture of intelligent upgrading, and Firecore is an intelligent vehicle monitoring solution provider standing out from the commercial vehicle field, with online devices all over the world.

So what is the current status of intelligence in the field of commercial heavy trucks? Intelligent upgrade for the trucking industry means what?

Policies Drive Intelligent Upgrading

In order to strengthen the regulation of operating trucks, on September 1, 2020, the Ministry of Transportation's "Safety Technical Conditions for Operating Trucks" officially landed. According to the requirements, trucks with a maximum speed of more than 18 tons and greater than 90km/h need to be mandatorily installed with LDW (Lane Departure Warning) and FCW (Forward Collision Warning); starting from May 2021, tractor-trailers and trucks with a maximum speed of more than 12 tons and greater than 90km/h need to be mandatorily installed with AEB (Automatic Emergency Braking).

Under such a policy dividend, many suppliers have started to make efforts in this direction, and many powerhouse enterprises have emerged. Among them, Firecore has established extensive cooperative relationships with domestic and foreign customers in the freight industry, and has developed intelligent driver assistance technologies such as ADAS/ DSM/ BSD for the special scenarios of freight trucks, solving the driving problems of freight trucks such as many blind spots, large blind zones, and distracted driving of drivers.

The market can rely on policy dividend development, but it also needs technology to drive. In foreign countries, the rise of assisted driving technology and automatic driving technology was initially designed to alleviate the fatigue of commercial vehicle drivers, and the assisted driving systems of large automobile enterprises were loaded on trucks for research, and the technological development trend was also started by commercial vehicles; in addition, assisted driving technology can also reduce the operating costs of trucks.

Mitigating Costs And Improving Driving Safety

Rigid expenditures such as fuel costs, tolls, insurance premiums, maintenance fees and drivers' fees are not decreasing, and now there are very many trucks on the road, and freight rates have been pressed down, so many heavy truck fleets are not in a very good business situation.

In order to enhance or even maintain revenue, many heavy truck drivers choose to overload, and long-time fatigue driving often occurs, and most of the accidents caused by heavy trucks are now due to overloading and fatigue driving.

After the heavy truck industry for intelligent upgrading, there are driver behavior monitoring and warning system, anti-collision warning system, lane departure warning system, AI pedestrian detection system, etc. can improve the safety performance of the vehicle, to prevent traffic accidents, to avoid potential personal and property losses, but also to a certain extent, can reduce the cost of operation and maintenance. Effectively alleviate the dilemma of continuously rising costs and high accident rates.

As a more than 10-year factory in the field of intelligent driving for commercial vehicles, Firecore has been working on the assisted driving system in the field of heavy trucks for a long time, and has developed a number of intelligent driving assistance technologies that meet the safety requirements of policies and regulations around the world, and provides customers with ODM and OEM customized R&D, production and sales services.

Advance Road Analysis (ADAS) Technology

ADAS is a technology that makes active judgment and preventive measures before the driver's subjective reaction in case of emergency, so as to achieve the role of prevention and assistance. For example, night vision system can help the driver to automatically recognize animals or large foreign objects at night or in bad weather when the vision is not clear, and warn the driver of the road conditions ahead to avoid accidents. The identification method is to use infrared light to sense the difference in heat, differentiate between people, animals, vehicles and the environment, and then processed into an image, which will clearly present the original objects in front of the driver's eyes in order to reduce the risk of driving.

Driver State Monitoring (DSM) Technology

Driver State Monitoring Technology, through the multi-layer neural network technology to accurately locate the driver's face multiple feature points, while combining clustering and neural network algorithms to determine the state of the face, no matter during the day or night, or the driver with glasses or sunglasses, can accurately detect whether the driver is in a fatigue state. Once the driver is detected to be fatigued, a warning will be issued to wake up the driver and a video will be generated at the same time to avoid serious accidents.

Blind Spot Monitoring and Warning (BSD) Technology

The Blind Spot Monitoring (BSD) system is used to monitor the presence of moving vehicles in the area behind the vehicle on the left and right sides, informing the driver of this information and reminding him of the safety of driving and lane changing.

Intelligent Upgrading Of The Heavy Truck Market Is Imperative

At present, the products of overseas heavy truck companies have a good foundation in intelligence, which is also lacking in domestic heavy truck models. China's heavy trucks have begun to converge with international standards from performance to price, especially with the upgrading of user demand, the proportion of high-end heavy trucks will be higher and higher! Domestic car companies and suppliers are working together to promote the intelligent upgrade of the heavy truck industry. After the completion of the intelligent upgrade of the heavy truck market, the entire heavy truck market will be further expanded, and the whole industry will also flourish!