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According to foreign media reports, trieye, an Israeli technology start-up, will work with German automakers to further innovate its short wave infrared (SWIR) sensing technology to further improve the advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) and car performance developed by trieye. (photo source: Porsche) TriEye's SWIR sensing technology is used to improve visibility in bad weather and nighttime conditions. This technology is mainly used to provide guidance for self driving vehicles in low visibility situations, because low visibility situations can make the autopilot system unable to work properly. The main problem with the use of self driving cars is that such vehicles rely solely on sensing systems. However, even when limited visibility is encountered, even with radar, laser radar and standard camera combinations, it is still impossible to detect and identify objects on the road clearly. TriEye integrates SWIR sensing technology into the automatic driving system to solve the above problems. Porsche believes that the TriEye based CMOS SWIR camera is an important part of the future autopilot car, and it is worth investing in the technology. As a result, Porsche has invested $2 million in trieye's expanded round a financing, bringing its total financing to $22 million. Other investors in trieye include Intel Capital, Marius Nacht, an Internet Security entrepreneur, and grove ventures, an existing investor. (photo source: trieye) trieye was founded in 2016. In addition to Bakal, its founders include Omer kapach, vice president of research and development of the company, and Uriel levy, CTO. Before that, levy had been working at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for nearly 10 years, and he was also an associate professor of the University. The company's flagship product is Raven cameras that support IP68. The company claims that the CMOS sensor is smaller (3 x 3 x 2.5 cm), higher resolution (1280 x 960) and cheaper (up to 1000 times cheaper) than the traditional solution. Trieye provides many software and AI driven remote nano photon sensing solutions, some of which are independently developed by expert teams in the fields of equipment physics, process design, optoelectronics and deep learning. The company says its full stack approach can well cover vertical areas outside the car, such as safety and optical detection. To a certain extent, trieye has a competitive relationship with sensor suppliers such as FLIR in Oregon and wavesense, a Boston ground penetrating radar start-up company. FLIR mainly produces thermal imaging vision cameras embedded in machine learning algorithms.