FAURECIA Intuition Demonstrator

Year created: 2015, Programming collaboration, Client: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH

For the Intuition demonstrator, we contributed the lighting effects in the door, in the DecoLight strip and for the air vents to the overall system. Six Neopixel matrix panels with 256 LEDs each are installed in the door; the animations running on them are procedurally generated by two Arduino Mega at runtime.

Various lighting moods and animations can be called up via wifi connection using a simple tablet app that we created.

Gesamtansicht des Intuition Messe-DemonstratorsPictures © Faurecia/YouTube

Software functionality in the demonstrator

  • RGB lighting effects in the air vents
  • RRGB lighting effects in the doors
  • Processing of operating actions relating to temperature and mood control

Labeling of the electronic components

AirVent lighting in 2 demonstrator versions (2015 / 2016)

Air vents showing 2 mood lightings

“Mood” light animations in the door panels

Door trim with 3 different light animations

Simulation of mood animation #1

Simulation of mood animation #2

Simulation of mood animation #3

Simulation of mood animation #4

User interface of the remote control tablet app

Screenshot of the Andorid remote control app UI

Hardware used

  • 1x Samsung Android tablet
  • 1x WiFi-Router
  • 1x Ethernet Shield
  • 1x Arduino Uno
  • 2x Arduino Mega
  • 1789x Neopixel WS2812 LEDs (6x Panel + 2x Strip)