OTIV

OTIV builds autonomy technology for rail vehicles. Headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, the company works on teaching trains and shunting locomotives to drive themselves, with the stated goal of improving safety and efficiency in railway operations. The technical scope spans camera-based perception, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), remote supervision and control, and full self-driving capability - an autonomy stack intended to be deployed incrementally rather than as an all-or-nothing system.

The product line is structured along that autonomy ladder. OTIV.ONE provides camera systems for shunting operations. OTIV.TWO adds advanced driver assistance for rail vehicles. OTIV.THREE covers remote supervision and control centers, keeping a human operator in the loop from a control room rather than a cab. OTIV.FOUR targets full self-driving for rail vehicles. Each stage addresses part of the same operating environment: the constrained, low-speed, high-traffic settings of shunting yards, urban rail, and industrial sites.

Deployment partners and clients include Deutsche Bahn, SNCF Group, ArcelorMittal, and CAF, spanning rail operators, industrial sites, and rail vehicle manufacturers. The environments OTIV targets - cities, shunting yards, industrial sites - involve fixed-guideway vehicles but unstructured surroundings, close proximity to personnel and equipment, and mixed traffic, which is where camera-based perception and remote supervision have to hold up in practice.