Urban Forssell
Analyst · Craig-Hallum
Thank you, Jonas. I will run off this overview of our three areas by talking a little bit about Remote Sensing Solutions. So please keep one forward. In Remote Sensing Solutions, we are working on driver in-cabin monitoring for automotive, which is a rapidly growing area, attracting a lot of interest on a lot of new players and well-established companies also wanting to have a piece of this market. We are talking about here 60 and also comfort features. So features or systems that increase safety, increases comfort for the driver and the passengers. And in this space, we have, for several years, been developing an AI based software platform. But called multi sensing that we currently are marketing towards automotive OEMs and Tier 1 system suppliers. In multi-sensing, our customers can create very efficient and cost effective yet high performance driving income and monitoring systems. Next. The main market drivers for these type of systems is, of course, safety. And then it is about sphere of vision to avoid any kind of debts or injuries and traffic. And the people have noticed that many drivers are distracted. They text on their phones, they look out to the side window or they are simply not paying attention. Some fall asleep, that would be a typical thing these type of systems can warn for. But also looking at autonomous driving, especially when you go beyond level two, OEMs and legislators want to know that the drivers are in charge and also in some modes that they keep their hands on the steering wheel. This is another example of a safety feature, where driver and in cabin monitoring can play an important role. But we also have advanced passive safety features like adaptive deployment of seatbelt, pre-tensioners and airbags given that you detect and you can accurately position persons in the cabin. Then you can imagine that you can do so much more with your advanced seatbelts and airbag systems as well. There is also legislative pressure here, playing into our favor. In the EU, the so-called General Safety Regulation, decided by the e-commission in November last year makes DMS mandatory by 2024. Similar legislations or rules being planned, both in the U.S. and China and other markets. We also see very, very strong interest from customers that we meet with currently about comfort and personalization features. And there only your imagination can limit what you can do. So if you can detect and monitor persons in the cabin, you can adjust the seats automatically, rearview mirror seat belts, also climate control, you can have adaptive high-five system features that control different rated channels to different persons in the cabin and so on, so forth. And we have also been involved in discussions with two companies working on augmented head-up display systems that adjusts the picture they present to the driver on the windscreen, depending on where you are looking. And also tying this into the new economy. So you can also be prepared to get a lot of advertisements on your wind screen in the future. Next. To understand how we contribute to this space to driver and in-cabin monitoring and that value chain, we can have a look briefly on this systematic picture here. To the left, you have cameras and other sensors. The signals or the images from the cameras are fed into our software package, which you call multi-sensing. First initial step, preprocessing, then you extract features like health position, high position, gaze direction and so on, and then you track those with good accuracy. And based on these intermediate signals, you can then, for instance, detect if the driver is drowsy or is it distracted or if you are looking for other things, you can have other applications using that information on top. Typical output would be a warning signal or in some other cases, like as we talked about an adaptive head-up display unit, there will be like input signals to this other system that we will export from our software. So this is how we fit in, and we aim at establishing ourselves as a Tier 2 software supplier here, working both with the Tier 1 system suppliers, and they can also be Tier 2 hardware suppliers and camera suppliers as well as some OEM players that want to integrate and develop these features themselves. Go to the next. And it is very clear here in this business area that our main target is the automotive light vehicle market. Last year came in at around 70 million vehicle, expected to rebound this year following COVID. Second quarter of last year was a disaster. But it has been on track to reach 100 million. So that is a very massive market. We work here with a push-pull strategy where we approach both OEMs and Tier 1s in parallel. And of course, with OEMs as a double edge order so that we want them also to request our solutions from different Tier 1 systems suppliers that they are talking to. Our focus right now is in Europe and North America. We have signed up with a partner, a sales company from Germany, helping us to penetrate this market in a much quicker way. So that is quite similar to what we are doing in HMI Products. We have done external help and people are well connected in the industry, helping us to scale up much quicker than we could do with our own resources. So that is working out in a very interesting way. Please go to the next. And we are looking forward to making an impact in this market with the driver and in-cabin monitoring. So with that, I will hand over to Maria to give us a financial update for 2020. Maria, please.