Intelligent lighting for better interactions

Intelligent lighting for better interactions

Lighting is essential for seeing and being seen. FORVIA provides dynamic and customizable solutions that address three central preoccupations for automakers: safety, design and sustainability.

Award-winning brilliance How headlamps illuminate the road surface varies depending on the driving context. Our Solid State Lighting | High Definition (SSL|HD) digital headlamp system is the world’s first high-resolution headlamp that creates light with individual software-controlled LEDs. With up to 25,000 LEDs on each chip, it provides better illumination on the road while improving safety with smart functionalities such as projecting safe distances or lane markings onto the road, safety zones for cyclists or pedestrians, and vehicle widths in tight spaces. SSL | HD is lighter and up to 75% smaller than previous generation modules, creating new possibilities for integrating the headlamp into vehicle architecture while reducing fuel consumption.

Radiant new possibilities

Electric vehicles do not need traditional radiator grilles, which opens up entirely new ways to design the front of cars. HELLA created its front phygital shield as a highly integrated module that offers automakers the design freedom to showcase styling elements, provide advanced functionality for automated driving use cases and upgrade dynamic lighting via software updates. Integrating multiple LED segments for dynamic surface illumination and different individual animations, our solution also includes heating elements to protect the reliability of front sensors and a self-healing function to repair minor damage using heat from sunlight. Since pioneering this technology, HELLA has received over €1 billion in orders.

Multifunctional rear lighting

What if vehicle lighting could improve visibility, enhance design and interactions between the car and road users? Through our Digital FlatLight, an innovative multicolor and multifunctional rear lamp system, HELLA creates luminous surfaces that communicate through signature lighting. Made of lightweight, multicolor FlatLight elements in combination with a smart glass layer, these systems reduce weight and use up to 80% less energy than traditional taillights, increasing the overall sustainability of vehicles. Automakers can use FlatLight to integrate taillights, stop lights and turn signals into one module, highlight design and branding signatures, or display warnings to other road users of traffic jams or safety hazards. And FlatLight functionality can be upgraded throughout a vehicle’s life via software updates.

Lighting up the interior

Drawing on the lighting, electronics and cockpit interiors expertise across the Group, FORVIA offers a range of adaptive cabin lighting to transform the onboard experience for drivers and passengers. Interior lighting can be used to create more immersive and personalized zones that enhance comfort, well-being, mood or alertness during the day or night. Automakers can embed dynamic surface lighting and decorative backlighting solutions to style the vehicle cabin and create ambient aesthetics. Combining the necessary lighting and electronics components in small and lightweight packaging, lighting solutions are designed to be cost-effective, scalable and customized in an unlimited number of colors, and deliver up to 70% weight savings per vehicle.