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Reflections from a CES Newbie

January 26, 2018 | By Nagesh Gupta

By Nagesh Gupta, VP of Engineering

Ah, everyone’s excitement about going to CES. I never could understand it, until now. With over 190,000 attendees this year, I don’t think any city could have run CES more smoothly, but it was still quite challenging even for Las Vegas.

Image Missing: Working on the cars at CES

Still, I was thrilled to be at the event. Our engineering team arrived just a few days in advance of the event, which was a testament to the simplicity and speed of our Fingerprint Base Map™ (FBM) creation process. We were able to create a half a dozen different demo route options in a compressed amount of time.

Image Missing: Voxel-based fingerprint localization demo

In Vegas, extreme weather was a new element that was unexpectedly added to the live demo challenge. We were not planning for such heavy rains and for flash flooding. This seemed to drive more interest to our own demo and we had to quickly accommodate the demand by outfitting more of our cars with Atlas DevKits.