Gentex to Highlight Driver Monitoring Capabilities at IAA Mobility

MUNICH, Germany, Aug. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany, Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX) plans to showcase its scalable driver monitoring system designed to help automakers meet impending safety regulations aimed at reducing traffic fatalities and injuries. The company will also demonstrate its growing expertise in thermal imaging with Israel-based technology partner, ADASKY.

Gentex is a long-time supplier of electro-optical products for the global automotive, aerospace and fire protection industries. It’s best known for supplying nearly every major automaker with connected-car technologies and advanced electronic features that optimize driver vision and enhance driving safety.

European Union General Safety Regulations will soon require that cars sold in Europe be equipped with a driver monitoring system (DMS). Gentex’s mirror-integrated DMS tracks driver head pose, eye gaze, and other metrics to determine distraction, drowsiness, sudden sickness, and return of manual control in semi-autonomous vehicles. The system can expand to include 2D and structured-light-based 3D cabin monitoring for detecting passengers, behavior, objects, and even presence of life.

Gentex currently has ongoing DMS development programs with multiple OEMs, with much of the work taking place at Gentex Technologies Israel, a Gentex subsidiary in Tel-Aviv established to develop advanced sensor hardware and software solutions for the automotive industry.

Gentex’s IAA booth will also highlight its partnership with ADASKY. In May, the two companies announced a collaboration agreement to help bring ADASKY’s propriety thermal imaging technology to market. ADASKY’s proprietary LWIR (Long Wave Infrared) sensors are known for their size-to-performance ratio, solid state technology, high reliability, and “shutterless” constant-operation design. They’re intended to fill gaps in existing advanced sensing systems, allowing ADAS and vision-based systems to operate more reliably in low light and in all-weather situations, ultimately helping optimize key functions such as automatic emergency braking (AEB).

Gentex’s IAA Mobility exhibit will also showcase the company’s industry-leading Full Display Mirror  (FDM), an intelligent rear-vision system that uses a custom camera and mirror-integrated video display to optimize a vehicle’s rearward view. The system captures video from a rearward-facing camera and streams it to a unique mirror-integrated LCD that provides the driver with an unobstructed, panoramic view behind the vehicle. The FDM debuted just seven years ago and is already available on 94 different vehicles from automakers around the world.