Hella have received a prestigious innovation award in China for their Smart Light system. The award is presented by the trade journal Automobil Industrie in China and the Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika) at RWTH Aachen University. Above all, it focuses on the innovative strength of the Hella lighting solution and its influence in the automotive industry.
Hella’s Asia Pacific regional interior lighting business manager Fang Min says, “Lighting plays an important role in the automotive industry, not only enhancing driver safety but also providing passengers with aesthetic & emotional experiences. With cutting-edge lighting technology, Hella offers dynamic and customized interior lighting solutions. We prioritize not only the visual impact of lighting but also its energy efficiency and functionality”.
The Smart Light system offers an innovative approach to traditional surface decoration and ambient lighting. It incorporates Hella’s New Generation Dynamic Lighting, enabling the assembly’s thickness to be within 8mm, thus providing greater flexibility in the interior space layout of automobiles. Additionally, Hella have put high-power modules in the system that offer approximately ten times the luminous flux compared to current RGB LED modules, with only a marginal increase in overall size. This enables high brightness, large-area interior ambient lighting at lower cost. The solution meets customer requirements for daytime ambient lighting. By integrating customer-provided data with self-developed simulation software, Hella can provide real-time simulations and animations demonstrating dynamic lighting, enabling a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) concept during the early stages of the project. along with traditional static lighting, Hella’s smart lighting system also enables new functions such as distance reminders, direction indicators, and gradient surface light sources through flashing, flow, and colour mixing of multiple light sources.
