AUTOMOTIVE
PayByCar
- Gentex recently announced a partnership with PayByCar, an innovator in contactless, in-vehicle payment technology
- PayByCar utilizes toll transponders to locate vehicles at participating gas stations and automate fuel transactions
- + Users register for PayByCar online
- + Toll transponder locates vehicles at gas station
- + Pump number confirmed via text message
- + PayByCar turns on pump and executes transaction
- Moving forward, PayByCar will also use Gentex's ITM® to identify vehicles at gas stations and complete fueling transactions with driver's smartphone
AEROSPACE
Electronically Dimmable Aircraft Windows
- Gentex is the leading supplier of electronically dimmable windows (EDW) for aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus
- EDWs are an electrochromic based sunlight and heat control solution
- Passengers can adjsut the amount of light entering the cabin while still enabling them to look out the window at the environment
- Gentex EDWs feature:
- + New, large window design
- + High-speed transition between clear and dark
- + New, ultra-dark low-end transmission
- + Eliminates 99.999% of visible light
- + Thin film coatings eliminate IR and UV light
Smart Lighting
- Intelligent lighting uses a combination of CMOS imagers and focused LED pods to shine light when and where it's needed
- Machine vision cameras could track the flight crew, selectively illuminating task areas without bothering passengers
- Ideal for aisles, galleys cockpits, baggage compartments, etc.
Biometrics
- The seatback-integrated biometric authentication system could allow passengers to securely access their personal flight information via an iris scan
- The system could provide gate numbers and connecting flight information, access to entertainment accounts and automatic payment for in flight purchases
- Gentex biometric systems could also be used for crew identification, flight attendant check-in and assignments, and cockpit access security
Cabin Sensing
- A comprehensive environmental sensing system using a variety of sensing methods that could be tuned to identify explosive or incendiary components during the boarding process for increased safety
- The system could also monitor cabin air quality while detecting smoke, vape and other airborne contaminants
Medical
Smart Lighting
- Gentex is partnering with Mayo Clinic to co-develop a smart lighting system for surgical and patient-care environments
- Extension of Gentex's SmartBeam® technology
- Allows medical staff to place focused illumination when and where it's needed
- Hands-free, ceiling-mounted lighting units
- Each unit combines outer-quadrant ambient lighting and dynamically adjustable task lighting
- Banks of camera-controlled, dynamically adjustable LED arrays work in concert to optimize light in the defined surgical field
- Still in development; targeting clinical trials in 2021
RetiSpec
- Gentex recently announced a partnership with RetiSpec to commercialize technology for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease
- RetiSpec is an artificial intelligence (AI) medical imaging company developing a tool for the early detection of disease biomarkers in the eye
- Gentex plans to leverage its engineering, imager development, and manufacturing expertise
- By harnessing hyperspectral imagery, RetiSpec's patented technology allows for the rapid, simple and cost-effective identification of Alzheimer's biomarkers years before the emergence of clinical symptoms
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