40 | SEPTEMBER 8 • 2022 

T

housands of General Motors 
dealerships are preparing to use 
an Israeli start-up’s technology to 
check the cars they sell for defects in a 
matter of seconds.
UVeye was founded in 2016 by 
brothers Amir and Ohad Hever, the 
company’s CEO and COO respectively, 
to provide under-vehicle inspection 
solutions for security threats and 
smuggling attempts. It was later 
realized that the same technology could 
be used for detecting mechanical and 
safety-related issues.
The company’s original product, 
now called Helios, scans the vehicle’s 
undercarriage using five cameras. 
Artemis provides tire inspection, while 
Atlas offers a 360-degree scan for 
scratches, dents and more. The newer 
Atlas Lite is a more mobile version 
that fits into smaller facilities such as 
dealerships.
In 2018, Yaron Saghiv joined the 
company as a partner and the chief 
marketing officer. He has since 
relocated to New Jersey, alongside 
the CEO, to manage teams of workers 
located in the Garden State as well as 
Ohio and Tel Aviv.
“We offer a one-stop shop of 
products that can scan and check the 
vehicle externally,” Saghiv said. “The 
goal is to replace the less objective, 
less consistent, less efficient manual 

process.” Compared to lifting the 
vehicle and walking around it, the shift 
could not be less gradual.
“Everything related to image 
processing and machine learning 
needed a certain level of maturity to 
teach an algorithm how to find those 
defects by itself,” Saghiv said. 
“We took the latest updates in AI, 
machine learning and computer vision 
and embedded them into this market. 

This is the time and the place for doing 
it.” The service is cloud-based, with 
a local server supporting the initial 
image processing.
“The algorithm isn’t catalogue-based, 
and doesn’t compare the vehicle to 
anything else,” Saghiv said. “It knows 
how to look at different parts of the 
vehicle. After seeing lots of vehicles at 
the component level, whether exhaust, 
tire sides, chassis, or any area under 

GM Dealers to 
Use Israeli Tech

BUSINESS

Thousands of dealerships will be checking cars 
for defects with technology from Israel’s UVeye.

AMIR SHOAM CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Yaron Saghiv at UVeye’s HQ 
Drive TLV demonstration

All of UVeye’s products 
at a GM dealership

The company’s 
first product

