HELLA wins innovation award for its Smart Light System Solution in China

Shanghai, 15 November 2023. HELLA, the automotive supplier operating under the FORVIA umbrella brand, has received a prestigious innovation award in China for its Smart Light System Solution. 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.

“Lighting plays an important role in the automotive industry, not only enhancing driver safety but also providing passengers with aesthetic & emotional experiences’’, says Fang Min, who is responsible for the Interior Lighting business of HELLA in the Asia Pacific region. “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.”

With its technical advantages in the field of automotive lighting, HELLA has introduced a new smart light system solution, offering an innovative approach to traditional surface decoration and ambient lighting. The system incorporates HELLA's New Generation Dynamic Lighting, enabling the assembly's thickness to be controlled within 8mm, thus providing greater flexibility in the interior space layout of automobiles. Additionally, HELLA has employed high-power modules in the system that offer approximately tenfold improvement in luminous flux compared to current market available RGB LED modules, despite a marginal increase in overall size. This enables the achievement of high brightness, large-area interior ambient lighting at a lower cost. HELLA's smart lighting system solution, which combines a minimal number of high-power RGB LEDs with slim light technology, fully 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 customers to experience the "What you see is what you get" concept during the early stages of the project. While delivering traditional static lighting, HELLA's smart lighting system solution also enables various functions such as distance reminders, direction indicators, and gradient surface light sources through flashing, flow, and color mixing of multiple light sources.