RTI Presents "Advancing Active Safety for Next-Gen Automotive" Complimentary Webinar

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 25, 2016) -  Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) connectivity platform company, today announced it is hosting a complimentary webinar, "Advancing Active Safety for Next-Gen Automotive," in partnership with Texas Instruments, a leading global electronics and semiconductor company.

Active safety, or ADAS, systems comprise a complex mix of interconnected sensors, actuators, compute, and image and data processing algorithms designed to save lives without distracting drivers. In this OpenSystems Media E-cast, automotive silicon and software experts, Bob Leigh and Brooke Williams, will show how technologies such as radar, lidar, sensor fusion, and in-vehicle connectivity software are evolving to make today's roads safer while paving the way for tomorrow's semi- and fully-autonomous cars.

Bob Leigh, Director of New Markets at RTI, brings more than 15 years of developing new markets and building technology companies to his role. He used his education in control and communication systems to engineer embedded solutions for a variety of industries including energy, manufacturing, and transportation.

Brooke Williams, Business Manager, Automotive ADAS Business Unit at Texas Instruments, held a variety of engineering, business development, product marketing and management roles for imaging and vision related products in the military systems and DLP business units. Since joining TI in 2005, Brooke joined the Embedded Processors division to start up and manage the business development, marketing and strategy of the Automotive Driver Assistance Systems Processors business unit.

Event Details

What: "Advancing Active Safety for Next-Gen Automotive" complimentary webinar
When: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. PT/11:00 a.m. ET
Speakers: Bob Leigh, Director of New Markets at RTI, and Brooke Williams, Business Manager, Automotive ADAS Business Unit at Texas Instruments

For more information, and to register for this free event, please visit: http://bit.ly/1Qiazop

About RTI

RTI provides the connectivity platform for the Industrial Internet of Things.

Our RTI Connext® messaging software forms the core nervous system for smart, distributed applications. RTI Connext DDS allows devices to intelligently share information and work together as one integrated system. RTI was named "The Most influential Industrial Internet of Things Company" in 2014 by Appinions and published in Forbes.

Our customers span the breadth of the Internet of Things, including medical, energy, mining, air traffic control, trading, automotive, unmanned systems, industrial SCADA, naval systems, air and missile defense, ground stations, and science. The total value of system designs that trust RTI for their fundamental architecture exceeds $1 trillion.

RTI is committed to open standards, open community source and open architecture. RTI provides the leading implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard.

RTI is the world's largest embedded middleware provider, privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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