Customer Experience

Neonode teams with Epicnpoc to leverage contactless touch to enhance human-machine interactions

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December 23, 2022

Neonode Inc., a provider of optical sensing solutions for contactless touch, touch, gesture control and in-cabin monitoring, and Epicnpoc, a French startup serving the IoT, mobile, smart home, exhibition and retail industries, have signed an agreement to deliver a multimodal human interface development platform, according to a press release.

The platform, designed for tier-one suppliers and automotive OEMs, combines contactless touch input with graphical user interfaces, script recognition, voice interfaces, gesture sensing, audio and lighting.

Neonode's patented contactless touch technology now integrates with Epicnpoc's catalog of plug-and-play components and offered in both product and service solutions, in particular into the Epicnpoc Bowl platform. Bowl is an experience development platform that combines a set of functional software, hardware and tools that allows users to design, develop, validate and test smart product experiences. Bowl is now available with contactless touch combined with a set of displays, user recognition, individual audio, script recognition, lighting and open interfaces.

The contactless touch capabilities are powered by Neonode's zForce technology, which uses invisible infrared light to detect touch, in-air motion of user hands or objects over any surface, such as wood, glass or plastic.

Neonode is also making its MultiSensing technology available to Epicnpoc and its customers. MultiSensing is a camera-based technology for scene analysis, which for example can be used for driver and in-cabin monitoring in vehicles and for other 3D sensing tasks.