This week’s in-depth article shows how it is possible to leverage a new dimension of interior lighting into a network integrating sensors and actuators into the ISELED chain. That paves the way for many new comfort and convenience features in car interiors—managing your coffee cup temperature; voice-activated climate controls, haptic feedback, and numerous others, all in a single network becoming a technology platform. That’s integration!
It’s surely interesting to have a look at the Pace Award finalists, and see the innovations they’re bringing into the car interior. Out of 12 interior innovations, four are within the screen/HMI zone, three in occupant safety (especially child-in-car); two in thermal comfort; two on IAQ (interior air quality), which is essential in an airborne-virus pandemic, and one for instrument panel decoration. Overall, we see a clear picture of where the industry is putting its innovation effort, and why traditional car interior parts like seats, instrument panels and so on, are also becoming platforms for additional layers of technology.
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