Published Paper Details:

Mood lighting is one of the key features in vehicle which gives premium feel to the Customer. It is also one of the main USP Features for the OEM's. Mood lighting works with a Light strip/Guide with LED. This system faces disadvantage mainly for vehicle packaging issue with the Interior elements. Existing mood light systems does not offer display of fluidic and geometric patterns. Hence, providing limited emotional connectivity with the occupants. Smart Fabrics are developed to provide the customer of choosing geometric & fluidic patterns which further will give emotional connectivity with the Vehicle interior Lightings. Smart Fabric (Fabric lighting advancement) uses Polymer optical fiber (POF) fabric where bunch of polymer optical fiber are connected with concealed packaging of RGB LED Light source. Based on lighting requirement single or multiple units can be utilized. This unique experience can be provided in all vehicle interior parts (Door Trims, Headliner, Console, Seats). This concept results in improving aesthetics of Vehicle Interior & also no vehicle packaging issue to accommodate. Lightings can be controlled by telematics (mobile app) & infotainment system (like mood lighting). This provides exceptional user experience for the customers. Major advantage of smart fabrics is that we do not need any major tooling changes to implement in existing interior parts.