Hector Fratty

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Hector Fratty, DrivingVisionNews President and Founder has been for his entire career in automotive lighting. From 1995 to 2006, he was Valeo Lighting Systems’ chief of R&D, managing a staff of 650 engineers and technicians and a budget of over €70m. He holds 20 patents worldwide. In 2008, after 2 years’ consultancy, he initiated the launch of Driving Vision News, a news pipeline dedicated to keeping the lighting and driver assistance community informed of the latest progress and development in the industry. Hector Fratty presides over the highly‐regarded biennial VISION Congress international automotive lighting and driver assistance symposium. Hector Fratty is also a member of the ISAL steering committees.

Ouster: Highest Resolution Sensors

Ouster make high-resolution lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles, robotics, heavy industry, and smart infrastructure—and they have the highest resolution sensor for nearly every use case, from long range to wide…

LiangDao: Better and More Reliable Performance

LiangDao are a global company with locations in Beijing and Munich, an R&D centre in Berlin, a business centre in Shanghai, and an engineering centre in Hebei Province. Most of…

Xenomatix: Performant Solid-State Lidar

Xenomatix have developed performant and reliable true solid state lidar sensors suitable for highly demanding ADAS and AD applications from L3 up to L5. They use artificial intelligence to generate…

Covestro: Polycarbonate Specialists Par Excellence

Covestro are the world’s largest supplier of polycarbonate, addressing pressing challenges and developing high-tech solutions used in many areas of daily life. Covestro serve a range of applications in the…

Auer: Overall Efficiency of the System

Auer Lighting are an IATF 16949 certified global supplier of optical components for the automotive industry, also providing highly complex coatings for lidar systems. Auer’s metallic and dichroic thin film…

System Plus Consulting : ADAS teardowns

System Plus Consulting’s Teardowns uncover innovative design features and new semiconductor components to guide enterprises toward more streamlined solutions in future designs. S+C provide clients unmatched intelligence into ADAS sensors,…

IMS : High-accuracy production systems

IMS (Integrated Mechanization Solutions), based in Almelo, Netherlands, develop and supply high-accuracy production systems. They wield particular expertise in building automated assembly lines and process automation for small, complex products…

Next Tuesday: The 3rd DVN Lidar Online Conference

There have been more than 10 months of Covid restrictions since our last in-person Workshop in Munich. That puts a real crimp in things; in a dynamic field such as this what we work in, networking is essential to bring on innovation and collaboration. We’ve all had to reinvent ourselves. At DVN, we’re busily working…

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