“There will be massive changes in interior automotive lighting in the years ahead, giving the car a completely new value,” says Lars Raith, CEO of wontec, a consulting and service company for the automotive industry. In this personal essay he describes how OEMs will emotionalize their brand experience with applications derived from light art.
When light creates a new sensation
What happens when you combine your vehicle interior with our in-depth understanding of the art of light? A completely new sensation. One in which light communicates with the people in the vehicle and speaks to their senses. Affecting their mood. Their energy, calmness and joy. Making them safer. Improving their well-being. Our light is the best passenger.
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Dashboard
Extensive or selective ambient lighting.
Sun visors
Extremely slim, controllable lighting integrated in sun visors.
Door panels
Flush-mounted light sources.
Door sills
Illuminated branding.
Reading light
Space-saving integration, for example in the headliner.
Headliner
Fascinating ambient and effect lighting from above.
Glass elements
Making illuminated sunroofs and glass even more impressive.
Head rests
Greater presence for brand elements with logo lighting on head rests.
Innovation partner for demanding customers
As a long-term, financially independent partner of the automotive industry, we produce individual solutions for every requirement.
You could say that we deliver light. But that’s not enough for me. I think we open up new horizons, deliver individual solutions and inject lots of energy.
Alexander, Head of Sales and Marketing
Gain valuable interior space
feno flat light guides are as thin as a ruler. With a thickness of only 2 mm they require very little installation space. They are laser-structured for absolutely homogeneous distribution of light over surfaces of any size. And they can be thermoformed to follow any contour. All this gives rise to completely new lighting concepts for vehicle interiors.
Interactive prototyping: With our flat light guides you can significantly reduce time to market.
Johannes, Innovation Engineer, feno
Freedom for designers
Take advantage of the wide variety of new possible shapes, formats and applications. You can seamlessly link feno flat light guides to vehicle functions, and integrate them in comfort, safety and information systems. Move the boundaries.
feno makes vehicles talk
When light speaks, cars communicate and interact with other road users. This is precisely why we developed CALE™ (CAN LightingEcu). This control unit for lighting applications uses the CAN protocol to address intelligent LEDs individually and uses multi messages to create universal lighting scenes. Using subnetworks, CALE™ addresses more than 30,000 LED positions in the entire CAN network at high speed.
Matrix displays will play an increasingly important role in exterior lighting in the future. We can quickly provide other road users with information using light signals or full LED panels. And we can give vehicles their own individual styling.