Solid state lidar technology developer XenomatiX has entered into a collaboration with cloud-based sound recognition technologies company ASAsense to combine the companies’ portfolios for infrastructure management solutions. The collaboration will leverage technologies including edge AI, lidar, and sound and vibration analysis for comprehensive detection and localization solutions for pavement inspection, infrastructure digitization, soundscape monitoring, object classification, event detection, and source localization. The collaboration will operate under the name “XenomatiX Group”. XenomatiX’s lidar technology is currently used in mobile mapping, automotive, and industrial sensing. According to Thomas Weyn, CEO of ASAsense, the collaborating companies are now poised to advance in the rapidly growing digital twin market and extend their international reach.