Gentex to Highlight Driver Monitoring Capabilities at IAA Mobility
31 August 2023 - 10:02PM
At the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany, Gentex Corporation
(NASDAQ: GNTX) plans to showcase its scalable driver monitoring
system designed to help automakers meet impending safety
regulations aimed at reducing traffic fatalities and injuries. The
company will also demonstrate its growing expertise in thermal
imaging with Israel-based technology partner, ADASKY.
Gentex is a long-time supplier of electro-optical products for
the global automotive, aerospace and fire protection
industries. It’s best known for supplying nearly every major
automaker with connected-car technologies and advanced electronic
features that optimize driver vision and enhance driving
safety.
European Union General Safety Regulations will soon require that
cars sold in Europe be equipped with a driver monitoring system
(DMS). Gentex’s mirror-integrated DMS tracks driver head pose, eye
gaze, and other metrics to determine distraction, drowsiness,
sudden sickness, and return of manual control in semi-autonomous
vehicles. The system can expand to include 2D and
structured-light-based 3D cabin monitoring for detecting
passengers, behavior, objects, and even presence of life.
Gentex currently has ongoing DMS development programs with
multiple OEMs, with much of the work taking place at Gentex
Technologies Israel, a Gentex subsidiary in Tel-Aviv established to
develop advanced sensor hardware and software solutions for the
automotive industry.
Gentex’s IAA booth will also highlight its partnership with
ADASKY. In May, the two companies announced a collaboration
agreement to help bring ADASKY’s propriety thermal imaging
technology to market. ADASKY’s proprietary LWIR (Long Wave
Infrared) sensors are known for their size-to-performance ratio,
solid state technology, high reliability, and “shutterless”
constant-operation design. They’re intended to fill gaps in
existing advanced sensing systems, allowing ADAS and vision-based
systems to operate more reliably in low light and in all-weather
situations, ultimately helping optimize key functions such as
automatic emergency braking (AEB).
Gentex’s IAA Mobility exhibit will also showcase the company’s
industry-leading Full Display Mirror (FDM), an intelligent
rear-vision system that uses a custom camera and mirror-integrated
video display to optimize a vehicle’s rearward view. The system
captures video from a rearward-facing camera and streams it to a
unique mirror-integrated LCD that provides the driver with an
unobstructed, panoramic view behind the vehicle. The FDM debuted
just seven years ago and is already available on 94 different
vehicles from automakers around the world.
The FDM also serves as a platform for additional innovation.
Add-on features include a mirror-integrated digital video recorder
(DVR), scalable trailer cam system, touch screen display, lane-line
projection overlays, and mirror-integrated selfie cam for capturing
photos within the vehicle cabin.
When it comes to car connectivity, Gentex will showcase
HomeLink, the industry-leading car-to-home automation system, which
consists of vehicle-integrated buttons that can be programmed to
operate a myriad of home automation devices, from garage doors to
thermostats.
The company will also demonstrate how automakers can develop new
revenue streams by offering their customers exclusive e-concierge
and travel booking services via Simplenight, a Gentex partner and
provider of a white-label e-commerce platform that can be
custom-branded and integrated into OEM mobile apps, center
consoles, and customer engagement web sites.
Gentex is the world’s leading supplier of dimmable devices,
shipping over 44 million units annually. The company’s current
product portfolio consists of glare-eliminating interior and
exterior rearview mirrors, and electronically dimmable windows for
the aerospace industry. Gentex is now developing large-area
dimmable devices for in-vehicle lighting, sunload, and privacy
control, including dimmable sunroofs, which darken on demand or in
conjunction with system intelligence, and dimmable sun visors that
fold down like a traditional visor but include a clear, dimmable
panel that darkens to eliminate sunlight glare.
The IAA Mobility show runs September 5-10 in Munich, Germany.
Gentex technologies will be on display in Hall A2, Stand #B33.
Founded in 1974, Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX) is a supplier
of automatic-dimming rearview mirrors and electronics to the
automotive industry, dimmable aircraft windows for aviation
markets, and fire protection products to the fire protection
market. Visit the company website at www.gentex.com.
Gentex Media ContactCraig Piersma(616)
772-1590 x4316craig.piersma@gentex.com
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