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Integrated Systems And Specialized Vehicles
Integrated Systems And Specialized Vehicles
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Hirain's IFC System Empowers Chinese Automakers to Sweep Top Three Spots in Euro NCAP SUV Driver Assistance Rankings
Release time:
2025-06-06 17:28
According to the latest data released by the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) in 2025, Chinese automakers' export models have shone brightly: they swept the top three positions in the SUV category rankings for driver assistance systems. The models are the Voyah Zhiyin Global Edition Courage, the Geely Galaxy EX5, and the Hongqi E-HS9. All three SUV models are equipped with the Intelligent Front Camera (IFC) system developed by Hirain. As a leading domestic player in the automotive electronics systems field, Hirain's IFC system has been deployed in over 300 vehicle models.
Image Placeholder: Euro NCAP Official Ranking Data (Ranked by Driver Assistance System Score Percentage)
As one of China's earliest suppliers to develop driver assistance products, Hirain has accumulated over 13 years of experience in driver assistance system development. Last year, leveraging its mature product development and integration system, Hirain achieved mass production of its IFC product – the world's first Intelligent Front Camera integrated with an 8-megapixel camera on the Mobileye EyeQ™6 Lite (EyeQ™6L) platform – with highly efficient R&D. This IFC system has been successfully deployed in multiple models including the Hongqi E-HS9 and the Voyah Zhiyin Global Edition Courage. Hirain's high-performance IFC system empowered the E-HS9 and Courage models to achieve stable responses in numerous complex scenarios during Euro NCAP active safety tests, providing crucial technical support for the vehicles' high overall scores. In this global competition of safety technology, Chinese suppliers like Hirain are reshaping the industry landscape through systematic innovation.
Image Placeholder: Hirain Intelligent Front Camera (Intelligent Front Camera)
▎ Euro NCAP 2023: The Secret to Success
Euro NCAP 2023 (applicable 2023-2025) introduced many new scenarios, particularly concerning Vulnerable Road User (VRU) protection. The AEB-VRU test alone encompasses 202 scenarios, including car-to-pedestrian, car-to-bicycle, and car-to-motorcycle situations. These scenarios primarily test the perception system's detection accuracy for small objects, predictive capability for partially occluded targets, and recognition ability at night, among others. Facing Euro NCAP's continuously evolving test standards, Hirain's EyeQ™6L IFC system boasts three key technical advantages:
· Superior Perception Capability: Utilizing an 8-megapixel high-resolution camera with a 120° ultra-wide field of view design, it increases the effective detection distance for pedestrians and cyclists by 70%, significantly improving recognition accuracy in sudden scenarios like "sudden pedestrian crossing" ("ghost probing"). Dynamic frame rate adaptation and intelligent light source zoning processing break through the technical bottleneck of day-night perception differences, further enhancing perception robustness.
· Highly Robust Proprietary Algorithms: With over 13 years of ADAS algorithm development experience and validation through more than 300 mass-production projects, the system employs fused multi-decision mechanisms to provide higher robustness while minimizing the probability of false braking in real driving scenarios.
· Global Data Support: Based on training datasets covering scene characteristics from over 70 countries worldwide, it builds perception models adapted to multi-regional driving habits. Algorithm safety and robustness are confirmed through tens of thousands of hours of data replay ("data re-injection").
Image Placeholder: Performance Improvement of EyeQ™6L compared to EyeQ™4M
According to Euro NCAP test data, in the active safety tests for Vulnerable Road User (VRU) protection, the Hongqi E-HS9 equipped with Hirain's IFC system achieved an outstanding score rate of 97.6% (24.4/25 Pts). It also performed exceptionally well in the Safety Assist (SA) tests, achieving a score rate of 86.7% (13/15 Pts) in the relevant test items.
It is well known that the Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) system has become a mandatory safety requirement for new vehicle market entry in Europe. The performance requirement set by international mainstream automakers for AEB systems is a maximum false trigger rate of once per 300,000 kilometers on average. Through technological innovation, Hirain has successfully reduced the false trigger rate of its AEB system to less than once per 3 million kilometers on average, far exceeding international standards. Currently, Hirain's IFC products have been deployed in mass production across over 50 overseas vehicle models.
*Video Placeholder: Partial Video of Hongqi E-HS9 in Euro NCAP 2023 Tests (Source: Euro NCAP Official Website)*
▎ Euro NCAP 2026: New Requirements, New Challenges!
With the increasing prevalence of driver assistance systems, Euro NCAP is also scrutinizing and raising the bar for its 5-star rating. In the upcoming Euro NCAP 2026 test protocols (effective January 2026), Euro NCAP has introduced more test scenarios in the active safety assessments to cover a broader range of real-world daily driving situations. Besides the existing standard test scenarios, this includes newly added robustness test scenarios (accounting for 20% of the assessment). These robustness tests encompass both Test Extensions and Environmental Extensions.
Test Extensions include larger speed ranges and more overlap rate ranges (overlap rate refers to the percentage of the area where the target vehicle overlaps with the host vehicle's path). For car-to-car collision scenarios, the maximum test speed increases from 80 kph to 130 kph, covering a wider range of driving situations. This demands that driver assistance systems detect moving targets ahead more stably at greater distances, ensuring reliable triggering in genuinely dangerous situations while preventing false braking. Compared to Euro NCAP 2023, Euro NCAP 2026 adds frontal collision scenarios with ±25% overlap rates. These scenarios are harder for drivers to recognize and avoid. Naturally, they also demand higher recognition accuracy from driver assistance systems.
*Image Placeholder: Car-to-Car Collision Overlap Rate Requirements in Euro NCAP 2026*
Additionally, Euro NCAP has introduced scenarios involving irregular vehicle postures, enhancing scenario robustness and posing new challenges for driver assistance perception systems regarding vehicle target recognition and hazard condition determination.
*Image Placeholder: Car-to-Car Collision with Irregular Vehicle Placement Scenario in Euro NCAP 2026*
Environmental Extensions require providing robustness data to prove adaptability across multiple scenarios, such as:
· Recognition of different vehicle types/appearances
· Different weather conditions
· Day and night
· Direct sunlight
· Oncoming high-beam interference
· Different road conditions
·Different occlusion situations
These new test protocols present significant challenges for automakers, demanding not only higher-performance perception and decision-making capabilities but also requiring evidence of system robustness. Hirain's EyeQ™6L IFC solution, with its longer detection range and higher recognition accuracy, is well-equipped to handle these new extension test items. Furthermore, leveraging its database covering hundreds of thousands of hours across various complex environments and conditions, Hirain can readily provide the data evidence required for Environmental Extensions.
As the EU's Euro NCAP 2026 test protocols come into effect in January 2026, Hirain will continue to iterate and optimize its driver assistance product portfolio. Firmly rooted in safety, Hirain will collaborate with global automakers to build a safety fortress, contributing greater strength to promoting the intelligent transformation of the global automotive industry.
▎ Hirain: Beyond This
With 13 years of deep expertise in the driver assistance domain, Hirain has now built a comprehensive driver assistance solution portfolio covering the entire chain of perception, decision-making, and control. The company has cumulatively delivered over 4 million sets of driver assistance products, forming a product matrix that includes the Intelligent Front Camera (IFC), Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS), 4D Millimeter Wave Radar, Integrated Positioning Modules, Corner Radars, Front Medium-Range Radars, 8MP Front/Rear View Cameras, 2MP Fisheye Cameras, and Highway/Urban NOA (Navigate on Autopilot) solutions. Hirain provides supporting products and solutions to numerous mainstream domestic and international automakers.