Cars can’t see at night or in bad weather. This thermal camera detects people, animals, and obstacles, improving safety when visibility is low.
Vehicles often struggle to see pedestrians, animals, and other hazards at night or in bad weather. Traditional headlights can’t cut through darkness, fog, smoke, glare, or reflections, which makes nighttime driving and advanced safety features less reliable. Tura, Teledyne FLIR OEM’s new thermal camera, addresses this by giving vehicles clear vision in conditions where humans and standard sensors fall short.
Tura is designed for night vision, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and autonomous vehicles. It uses a 640 × 512 longwave infrared sensor with high sensitivity, letting cars detect people, animals, and other heat-emitting objects—even in complete darkness. This helps improve safety features like pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB) and supports higher-speed nighttime driving scenarios that many existing systems struggle with.
The camera is built to Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL-B) standards under ISO 26262, ensuring functional safety for passenger, commercial, and autonomous vehicles. It can operate 24/7 in harsh conditions thanks to a heated, all-weather IP6K9K enclosure, and its shutterless, AEC-Q-qualified components improve uptime and reduce costs.
Tura integrates with Valeo’s ADAS software to deliver functions such as automatic emergency braking (AEB) at night. When used in fleets or autonomous platforms, multiple cameras can be combined to provide 360-degree thermal awareness, detecting obstacles beyond the reach of standard sensors. Its AI-optimized Prism software and training data, built from millions of annotated images, make deployment faster and more reliable.
By combining high sensitivity, functional safety, all-weather reliability, and AI-ready integration, Tura helps vehicles see better, respond faster, and keep passengers and road users safer—especially in situations where conventional vision systems fail.
“Safety and reliability are non-negotiable pillars of autonomous technology, and Tura sets a new industry benchmark with compatible FuSa features starting from the sensor,” said Paul Clayton, President and GM, Teledyne FLIR OEM. “We have manufactured more than one million automotive thermal camera modules over the last twenty years for driver warning systems and will continue to provide a high-volume, cost-effective solution.”
