Ink Invent, CES 2024 Smart Cities Award Honoree, is once again showcasing new RheoLight Crystal Glass innovations. Black made visible for LiDAR and the Visibility Label for mobility coatings.
Finally, Black Made Visible for ADAS
Statistics reveal that black is the most hazardous color for vehicles in motion. Because of their reduced visibility, black cars face a 47% higher risk of accidents at dusk or dawn and a 12% higher risk by day compared to white vehicles. Automotive black paint reflects less than 2% of light, and this significantly limits LiDAR sensors’ ability to detect vehicles at a critical distance of 200 meters.
RheoLight implemented in black metallic or pearlescent automotive coatings, strongly improves the accuracy and reliability of data captured by LiDAR sensors and Computer Vision. This leads to safer navigation and more accurate obstacle detection, finally making black vehicles detectable.
RheoLight benefits in Black coatings
Black metallic with 9% RheoLight;
ADAS data improvements
LiDAR | 280% more reflectivity
Computer Vision | 150% more reliability
Visibility Label for safer mobility colors
The Visibility Label is an innovative rating system designed to measure the visibility of coatings in the mobility industry. It ranks the human visibility of colors from A (highly visible) to G (barely visible) under low and dark lighting conditions. It also includes an additional A to G visibility score for LiDAR and Computer Vision (camera), which are used in ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) for autonomous driving.
What are Crystal Glass Pigments?
RheoLight, the world’s first Crystal Glass Pigment, represents a groundbreaking class of effect pigments characterized by their unique physical and chemical structure: perfectly round Crystal Glass Microspheres. Much like the properties of diamonds, RheoLight enhances and intensifies light direction and reflection, delivering strong specular and return reflections under all lighting conditions.
Amazingly, just 1 gram of RheoLight CSTL (automotive OEM grade) contains 12 billion perfectly round Crystal Glass Microspheres, each with an average particle size of 5 microns. RheoLight mobility grades are available as liquid dispersions, enabling seamless formulation in mobility coatings.
Experience RheoLight at CES 2025
Visit our booth to explore how simple it is to create striking and visible automotive colors with our RheoLight R&D Mini-Lab and ColorLab engineers.
Safety made beautiful in every color at the Ink Invent / RheoLight booth #62100/6 – Eureka Park at the CES 2025 Holland pavilion
