Osram aims at automotive with high-power IR leds

For automotive applications, Osram has introduced six high-power infra-red leds that can be pulsed at up to 5A (up from 3A in earlier versions). Part of the Oslon Black family, there are 850nm versions intended for exterior applications such as night vision, pedestrian protection, pre-field recognition and lane detection, as well as 940nm versions for interior applications such as driver monitoring, seat occupancy detection and gesture recognition.