Affordable Thermal Sensors Will Allow Auto Industry to Advance the Reliability and Redundancy Needed for Self-Driving Cars
WILSONVILLE, Ore., Jan 9 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) today announced the availability of a high-resolution Thermal Vision Automotive Development Kit (ADK™) featuring the high-performance FLIR Boson™ thermal camera for automakers, tier-one automotive parts suppliers, and innovators of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The new FLIR ADK allows developers to add an affordable, long-range thermal camera to their ADAS development vehicles to help advance reliability and redundancy required for self-driving cars.
As the auto industry's only automotive-qualified passive infrared sensor currently in production, FLIR® sensors are offered today on numerous vehicles from General Motors, Peugeot, Mercedes, Audi, and BMW, and as an aftermarket system. An ideal sensor technology for pedestrian and animal detection, thermal sensors can see up to four times the distance of typical headlights. Thermal imaging helps drivers and future self-driving vehicles see in challenging environments such as darkness, sun glare, fog, smoke, and haze. Given this differentiated sensing capability and intense market focus, ABI Research expects annual shipments of night vision systems, including thermal imaging sensors, to grow from 200,000 in 2017 to 4.2 million in 2021¹.
WILSONVILLE, Ore., Jan 9 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) today announced the availability of a high-resolution Thermal Vision Automotive Development Kit (ADK™) featuring the high-performance FLIR Boson™ thermal camera for automakers, tier-one automotive parts suppliers, and innovators of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The new FLIR ADK allows developers to add an affordable, long-range thermal camera to their ADAS development vehicles to help advance reliability and redundancy required for self-driving cars.
As the auto industry's only automotive-qualified passive infrared sensor currently in production, FLIR® sensors are offered today on numerous vehicles from General Motors, Peugeot, Mercedes, Audi, and BMW, and as an aftermarket system. An ideal sensor technology for pedestrian and animal detection, thermal sensors can see up to four times the distance of typical headlights. Thermal imaging helps drivers and future self-driving vehicles see in challenging environments such as darkness, sun glare, fog, smoke, and haze. Given this differentiated sensing capability and intense market focus, ABI Research expects annual shipments of night vision systems, including thermal imaging sensors, to grow from 200,000 in 2017 to 4.2 million in 2021¹.
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