In 2018, when we looked at how camera sensors were being added to mobility products, we saw products that were not as smart as they should be to crack the immense challenges the sector would face. Products often were defined by their hardware and lacked innovation from software and especially had no utilization of cutting-edge machine learning. We had worked on self-driving car initiatives in Silicon Valley and Europe from maps and Tier-1s to OEMs and Academia.
Our belief was that vehicle sensors – especially those generating visual context – should not solely contribute to safety applications. We wanted to go beyond that. We saw a need for a different kind of technology to make cameras smart and turn fresh insights from millions of devices into the engine of new business models. That's why we started Peregrine.ai, now a team of over 20 people from 8 countries based in Berlin, committed to contributing to VISION ZERO of the European Union, minimizing CO2 emissions in transportation, and creating mobility for all.