Etechstars · DriveNoggin™

Sensing & Intelligence for Machines That Move

ETECHSTARS builds DriveNoggin™, a perception and intelligence platform that fuses optical sensing, radar and inertial positioning into one live, measurable understanding of the world around a vehicle.

Who we are

We build sensing and intelligence systems for machines that operate in the real world, and we are clear about what they can and cannot see.

Sensing modalities fused
3
Surround view
360°
Master clock for every sensor
1
Edge AI, no cloud required
On-board
01Technology

Perception, Built as a System

DriveNoggin™ is our proprietary sensing and intelligence technology. It turns raw signals from several kinds of sensors into a single, time-aligned picture of a vehicle's surroundings: what is there, how far away it is, how it is moving and what it means.

01

Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion

Optical sensors recognize what is in the scene, radar measures range and closing speed, and inertial and satellite positioning track the vehicle's own motion. DriveNoggin™ fuses them into one consistent picture.

02

Object Understanding

Vehicles, people, signs and signals are detected, classified and placed in the vehicle's own frame of reference, each one carrying a measured distance.

03

Tracking & Motion

Objects keep stable identities over time. Motion is judged statistically, so parked vehicles stay parked, moving traffic is followed and positions are predicted seconds ahead.

04

Map & Spatial Context

Maps stored on the vehicle anchor everything to the road network, adding lane and junction context with no connection required.

05

Recording & Replay

Every sensor is captured against one master clock into integrity-checked sessions that replay exactly, for review, validation and continuous improvement.

06

Edge Intelligence

All perception runs on an edge computer installed in the vehicle. There is no cloud round-trip between what the vehicle senses and what it understands.

DriveNoggin™

DriveNoggin™: Intelligence Inspired by Nature

Living things never rely on a single sense. They combine sight, motion and balance into one instinctive picture of the world. DriveNoggin™ brings the same principle to machines: complementary sensing modalities, one shared clock, and AI that reasons over all of them together. Our underlying methods are proprietary; we share technical detail with partners under NDA.

  • Optical, radar and inertial streams fused on one master clock
  • Measured distance on every detection; closing speed where radar coverage overlaps
  • Sensor faults reported openly, never masked or simulated
  • Every drive replayable through the exact software that ran live

Sense

Optical sensing
Radar
Inertial & GNSS

Fuse & understand

DriveNoggin™fusion

Understand

Objects & distance
Tracks & motion
Map context
Trip records
FleetX Lite roof assembly on a semi-truck cab at a fleet yardConcept image
02Introducing

FleetX Lite

Our first product brings DriveNoggin™ sensing and intelligence to commercial fleets: a no-drill retrofit kit with on-board AI, live surround awareness and a complete, replayable record of every trip.

Status
Pilot program
Platform
DriveNoggin™
Installation
No-drill retrofit
Processing
On-board edge AI
03Company

A Sensing & Intelligence Company

ETECHSTARS is a deep-tech company building sensing and intelligence systems for machines that operate in the real world. Our DriveNoggin™ technology combines complementary sensing modalities with on-board AI to give vehicles, and the people who run them, a clear and verifiable understanding of their surroundings.

We believe perception should be measured, verified and honest about its limits. We state plainly what we have demonstrated and what is still in development. FleetX Lite, our first product, brings this approach to commercial fleets.

The ETECHSTARS team

Our Vision

A world where every machine that moves understands its surroundings accurately, and can show how it knows.

Our Mission

To build sensing and intelligence systems that are accurate, verifiable and practical to deploy on the vehicles people already use.

Our Commitment

Honest engineering. Our systems report what they measure, flag what they cannot see and never fill gaps with guesswork.

Our Innovation

Through DriveNoggin™, we develop proprietary perception methods inspired by how living things sense the world, combining complementary senses into one picture.

Locations

Where We Work

Offices in the United States and India.

  • Detroit, MI

    42.33° N, 83.05° W

    Focus: Research & development

  • Houghton, MI

    47.12° N, 88.57° W

    Focus: Research & development

  • San Francisco, CA

    37.77° N, 122.42° W

    Office: San Francisco Bay Area

  • Bengaluru, KA

    12.97° N, 77.59° E

    Established: 2024

    Focus: Engineering: sensor fusion and perception software

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04News

Latest News

Product updates, partnerships, research milestones and life at ETECHSTARS.

05Contact

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