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According to foreign media reports, FLIR systems, Inc. announced that its boson ® based thermal sensing technology has been adopted by veoneer, a tier 1 automotive supplier, for L4 automotive production. (photo source: FLIR official website) veoneer's system contains multiple thermal cameras, providing narrow and wide field of view visual performance to improve the safety of autonomous vehicles. In low visibility and high contrast driving conditions, such as night, shadow, dusk or sunrise, and direct sunlight or headlights, as well as severe weather conditions, such as fog and smoke, other sensor technologies are challenged, while thermal cameras perform well. Combined with analysis, thermal camera can help detect and classify a variety of common road objects, especially good at detecting people and other creatures. At night, the detection capability of thermal sensors is four times that of headlights, which can detect the heat emitted by all objects. It provides more data for the existing automatic driving vehicle sensor suite, improves reliability and redundancy, and helps autopilot make better decisions. Frank Pennisi, President of FLIR Industry Department, said: "the automotive industry is facing enormous technical challenges. We must develop technology to build safe driving cars. Therefore, sophisticated sensor technology including thermal sensors is required to ensure safety and provide more potential sensing capabilities under various conditions. FLIR's automotive thermal sensor core technology is the key component of veoneer thermal sensor camera and system, which paves the way for veoneer system to be widely used in passenger cars. " FLIR thermal sensing core technology will also be used in the fourth generation thermal sensing system that veoneer plans to launch next year. The new contract signed represents a new stage in FLIR and its thermal sensing technology, and will further promote the development of self driving cars.