Google has been building tiny radar chips since 2015 that can tell you how well you sleep and control your smartwatch.
But its work in this technology was not successful enough, especially since the company's "Soli" radar did not achieve commercial success, as it appeared prominently in the "Pixel" phone.
Now, Google has released an open source software called "Ripple" that can theoretically enable tracking technology to work on additional devices outside Google, including cars, as the car manufacturer Ford is interested in this technology and is one of the participants in developing The new standard.
Technically, Ripple's software operates under the supervision of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the same industry body that hosts the CES trade fair in Las Vegas each January, but the question is who He is already behind the project.
Project Ripple makes explicit reference to Google, including several of the company's "Copyright 2021" documents, which state that Google must sign an open-source license agreement to take advantage of the new software.
Ford, for its part, told The Verge that the internal radar may become part of driver assistance technologies.
The automaker says it is currently using "advanced external radars" to work on these features and is expensive.
"We're looking at how to use internal radar as a sensing source not only in Ford's pioneering Co-Pilot360 driver assistance technologies that use advanced external radars, but as a way to develop other features," said Jim Bozkowski, Ford's chief of advanced research and engineering.
"The new software will allow us - with the development in the chip industry - to develop independent programs and give software teams room to innovate," he added.
Ford currently needs this new software that will enable it to reduce the cost of using expensive chips.