Partnership to improve automotive front lighting

Intermap Technologies has announced a collaboration with Hella KGaA Hueck & Company on a predictive front lighting system.
February 1, 2012 Read time: 1 min

221 Intermap Technologies has announced a collaboration with 226 Hella KGaA Hueck & Company on a predictive front lighting system. The partnership integrates Intermap’s high-resolution 3D road geometries, and information supplied by camera systems in an automobile, into Hella’s front lighting demonstration system. According to the partners, this will ultimately provide a significant increase in visibility for drivers at night and during inclement weather by automatically directing the headlamp before the driver manually steers the vehicle into a bend or up and down a slope.

“Intermap´s highly accurate 3D road data is a key enabler of our map-based predictive front lighting application,” said Dr.-Ing. Georg Florissen, Hella’s head of advanced development, driver assistance systems lighting. “Overall, this integration of digital map data provides a comprehensive and secure system, combining the data with camera and other sensors to take our predictive front lighting systems to the next level.”

According to Intermap senior vice president, automotive group, Eric DesRoche, it is important that vehicle safety systems encompass reliable 3D road vectors for all classes of roads, including smaller rural roads, as these are often where the more difficult curves, dips, and slopes are encountered.

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