South Korean radar firm Bitsensing has entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Dutch electronics giant NXP to develop products for automotive, industrial, IoT, mobile and communications infrastructure markets.

The collaboration aims to offer high-performance, scalable radar systems across automotive, smart cities, robotics, healthcare and beyond by combining NXP’s radar chipsets with Bitsensing’s radar technology and software. Bitsensing will leverage its knowledge of NXP’s radar chipsets to develop radar products, supporting customers with pre-development and accelerating the overall development time.

Lead customers have already started evaluation with pre-developed samples based on NXP’s SAF85xx automotive radar one-chip family.

Specifically, the MoU marks a milestone in Bitsensing’s journey towards delivering radar for the automotive industry, ultimately contributing to safer and smarter vehicles worldwide. Bitsensing will also collaborate with NXP on developing radar products that are tailor-made for smart city traffic monitoring, healthcare radar for sleep monitoring and robotics applications.

“This collaboration with NXP allows us to offer truly scalable radar, which will be a game-changer across all the industries we collectively serve,” said Jae-Eun Lee, CEO of Bitsensing. “By combining our radar technology with NXP’s leading radar chipsets, we’re pushing forward the boundaries of connectivity and the full potential of our radar systems to deliver on the future of autonomy and beyond. We encourage all who are interested to reach out for the sample that best fits your specific goals.”

Karthik Ramesh, marketing director at NXP, added: “NXP is excited to partner with Bitsensing to bring radar systems that can serve automotive and industrial applications. NXP’s market leading radar chipsets, combined with Bitsensing’s radar system competence, will enable faster development of scalable radar and accelerate deployment of radar systems by OEMs.”

The products developed using NXP (www.nxp.com) chipsets for 4D imaging, front and corner radar are sampling. They address advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles (AVs), traffic insight monitoring sensor (TIMOS) for smart city traffic monitoring radar for the connected urban environment, and a wellness radar for sleep monitoring applications.

Founded in 2018 in South Korea, Bitsensing (bitsensing.com) has expanded the use of its high-performance, automotive-grade radar across a variety of applications in autonomous driving, connected living, smart cities and health tech. Since its inception, the company has raised $52m in funding, with investment from AF WPartners, Korea Development Bank and more.