Use Cases

Elevate the touch experience across many applications

Automotive Use Cases

UltraSense solutions offer an intuitive touch experience for drivers and passengers, while providing automotive OEMs and suppliers with thinner, lighter, more sustainable alternatives to clunky mechanical controls. 

Automotive Interiors

Steering Wheel

  • Gesture technology enables turn signal & wiper stalk replacement
  • Thinner form factors offer stow ability option

Center Console

  • HVAC & Infotainment controls built into trim
  • ShyTech hidden-then-lit capabilities

Overhead & Lighting

  • Overhead control modules offer from moonroof to HomeLink
  • Personalized Multi-Function lights without the “click”
  • Removal of clunky mechanical controls

Interior Door

  • Door Unlock with at-Edge Illumination, Audible, Haptic Feedback
  • Optionality to enable upgrade to SafeExit capability
  • Seating controls
  • Window controls

Soft Surfaces

  • Multiple interior surfaces applications deliver optionality consistency to support premium experiences
  • Basic plastic and glass to metal, and natural and soft surfaces

Automotive Exteriors

Exterior Doors

  • Multiple choices for entry solutions from SSI module solutions to custom solid state HMI controller enabled solutions to accommodate for virtually any design including no-thru hole panels
  • Multi-Mode sensing with MCU algorithms enable elimination of many accidental activation scenarios

Trunk/Frunk

  • Multiple choices for entry solutions from SSI module solutions to custom solid state HMI controller enabled solutions. 
  • Multi-Mode sensing with MCU algorithms enable elimination of many accidental activation scenarios

Charge Port Door E-Lid Solid State Interface (SSI)

  • Multiple interior surfaces applications in new previously inaccessible locations, customizable to any form factor
  • Sensing with gloves, press activated (In door or behind door) with custom programmable force thresholds to open (for example 5 Newtons)
  • Feedback through multi-color (RGB) & pattern programmability, haptics option
  • Integrated LIN Comm Bus Interface option
  • Factory pre-calibrated and Waterproof, IP65-69 for plug & play assembly
  • InPlane HMI components and ShyTech finish capable

Mobile Use Cases

With patented technology, UltraSense integrates multi-mode sensing, lighting and algorithm processing in a single chip – eliminating the need for mechanical buttons and enabling new user interfaces for smartphones, AR/VR headsets, and wearables.

Smartphones

Smarter Side Buttons

  • Replace mechanical buttons with multi-mode sensing
  • Enable sleek designs with thinner SmartSurfaces

New User Interfaces

  • Use the side or back of the phone to enable new interfaces
  • Power intuitive gaming triggers, one-handed image capture, and more

Audio and Wearables

Headsets and Earpods

  • Enable touch sensing within the smallest size, at the lowest power
  • Add intuitive controls to a new-generation of audio and AR/VR headsets

Smartwatches

  • Integrate touch controls into the bezel
  • Create new user interfaces on the thinnest surfaces

Industrial Use Cases

Replace almost any mechanical button with UltraSense Solid-State Interface modules, which are pre-calibrated for a plug-and-play integration. UltraSense SmartSurfaces are highly accurate (even with gloves) across any type of material.

Solar Station Controls

  • Solid State Interface: full assemblies that are fully pre-calibrated, just insert, connect and it’s ready to roll.

Any Touch Sensing Need

  • Accurately sense intended touch through any material, even wearing gloves
  • Replace mechanical buttons with SmartSurfaces for sterile environments
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