AU Optronics announced today (27th) that eight of its products have been recognized by the 33rd Taiwan Excellence Award. Among them, the "AU Optronics Smart Cockpit 2024" which integrates displays and human-computer interaction interfaces, the "SunCleanBots" solar module cleaning robot, and the "SunVeillance Energy Solution" all won silver awards. The 60-inch high-transparency Micro LED display, rollable rear-seat entertainment display, interactive transparent smart window, 150M autonomous mobile robot, and equipment monitoring and health management system were all recognized by the Taiwan Excellence Mark. The diverse cross-domain solutions have been highly recognized by experts in Taiwan's industry, highlighting the important value of AU Optronics' innovative technologies in market applications.
AU Optronics CEO and General Manager Ko Fu-jen stated, "AU Optronics is accelerating its dual-axis transformation, continuously deepening its innovative technologies, and developing diverse market applications. Together with ecosystem partners, we are creating differentiated brand value, enhancing competitiveness and corporate image. This time, we have received recognition from the Taiwan Excellence Award in various fields such as smart cockpits, energy solutions, advanced displays, and smart manufacturing, demonstrating the value and fruitful results we have achieved in practicing innovative technologies and meeting market demands."
AUO's "Smart Cockpit 2024" won the Taiwan Excellence Silver Award for its outstanding Display HMI automotive solutions, which highly integrate displays and human-machine interfaces. Among the products showcased were the "Rollable Rear-Seat Entertainment Display" and the "Interactive Transparent Smart Window" utilizing Micro LED technology, which also received the Taiwan Excellence Mark.
AU Optronics' Smart Cockpit 2024, designed with user experience at its core, wins Taiwan Excellence Award for its innovative space concept . The "AU Optronics Smart Cockpit 2024," developed with a focus on user experience, integrates displays and human-machine interfaces in a highly integrated manner, from the A-pillars in the front seats to the large curved screens and reflective head-up displays, to the interactive transparent smart windows on the sides and the rollable display system in the rear seats. This provides a cockpit controller solution that effectively addresses many pain points of traditional car cabin design, offering ecosystem partners more opportunities for innovative practices, transforming the concept of car cabin space, and exploring the possibilities of the future car cabin. Since its debut, the "AU Optronics Smart Cockpit 2024" has won numerous awards both domestically and internationally, including the CES Best Innovation Award and the SDIA Advanced Display Award. This latest Taiwan Excellence Award demonstrates AU Optronics' strong technological capabilities and market potential, and its continued leadership in leading innovation in the display technology industry.
AUO's "SunVeillance Energy Solution" uses AI technology to enable autonomous power plant management and integrates three major systems: visual energy management, solar power plant monitoring and management, and green electricity trading management, creating stable power supply value and winning the Taiwan Excellence Silver Award.
SunVeillance, integrating energy management, power plant monitoring, and green electricity trading systems, boasts the most comprehensive information in Taiwan and has won the Taiwan Excellence Silver Award . AU Optronics leverages its extensive experience in power plant management to intelligently manage power plant operations. Using AI technology to detect anomalies, quantify losses, automatically dispatch work, and conduct post-maintenance acceptance, it also features power plant aging safety warnings, enabling autonomous power plant management. The solution integrates three major systems: visual energy management, solar power plant monitoring management, and green electricity trading management, creating the "SunVeillance Energy Solution." This solution provides comprehensive management covering the entire process from power generation and consumption to power purchase and sale. It monitors 2.83GW of solar power plants across Taiwan and has experience managing over 7,000 solar power projects. Certified by Taipower's "Distribution-Level Renewable Energy Management System," it effectively controls information security and integrates users' comprehensive and up-to-date needs in energy industry management. This Silver Award recognizes its significant contribution to creating stable power supply and its key role in Taiwan's renewable energy development.
AUO's "SunCleanBots" solar module cleaning robot boasts advantages such as lightweight design, intelligence, and high efficiency. Equipped with a fully automatic navigation cleaning mode, it has been applied in multiple solar power plant sites, significantly improving the lifespan and performance of solar modules while reducing labor costs. It has won the Taiwan Excellence Silver Award.
SunCleanBots, a smart cleaning robot that optimizes cost competitiveness and enhances the performance of solar modules, wins the Taiwan Excellence Silver Award . AU Optronics (AUO) has been involved in the energy business since 2008, providing comprehensive energy solutions including energy generation, storage, energy saving, and energy management. By 2024, AUO had completed 521MW of photovoltaic installations. The company has developed numerous smart products and solutions, with its "SunCleanBots" solar module cleaning robot and "SunVeillance Energy Solution" both receiving high recognition from the Taiwan Excellence Silver Award, demonstrating AUO's strength in supporting the development of Taiwan's green energy industry through innovative technology.
AUO's "SunCleanBots," which won the Silver Award, boasts three major advantages: lightweight, intelligent, and high efficiency. Constructed with an ultra-thin aluminum shell, it weighs only 27 kilograms, making it easier to disassemble, assemble, and transport. It is adaptable to harsh and variable outdoor environments such as high temperature and high humidity. It can be remotely monitored via a mobile app and features a fully automatic navigation cleaning mode. It uses sensing technology to detect the surrounding conditions of the vehicle and provides the optimal cleaning path. It also achieves water-saving benefits and reduces labor costs by up to 60% through a dry cleaning method that does not require water lines. It has been applied in multiple solar power plant sites, significantly improving the overall lifespan and performance of solar modules.
AU Optronics has led the industry in creating a "60-inch high-transparency Micro LED display," boasting advantages such as high transmittance, low diffraction, high brightness, and seamless splicing. It demonstrates its application potential in areas such as home entryway windows, product display windows, and information display windows on tourist vehicles, and has been awarded the Taiwan Excellence Mark.
Micro LED display technology's diverse applications and smart manufacturing solutions enhance production efficiency, both garnering the Taiwan Excellence Mark . AU Optronics (AUO) has also received recognition from the Taiwan Excellence Mark in the fields of advanced display and smart manufacturing. In advanced display, AUO utilizes its industry-leading Micro LED technology and characteristics to create a "60-inch high-transparency Micro LED display," boasting advantages such as high transmittance, low diffraction, high brightness, and seamless splicing, showcasing the potential of large-size transparent displays. Furthermore, Micro LED technology is applied to smart cockpits, creating the world's first (*) "rollable rear-seat entertainment display," providing passengers with entertainment information and freedom in space utilization; while the "interactive transparent smart window" expands the multifunctional application of windows, providing information display and door opening warning functions, offering a more convenient and intelligent human-machine experience.
AU Optronics' "150M Autonomous Mobile Robot" addresses pain points in semiconductor environments, combining multiple module applications with safety and cleanliness features to effectively improve production efficiency while ensuring the safety and quality of production line operations. Meeting market demands for automated production, it has been awarded the Taiwan Excellence Mark.
In the field of smart manufacturing, AUO's "150M Autonomous Mobile Robot" addresses pain points in the semiconductor field, combining multiple module applications and safety and cleanliness features to effectively improve production efficiency and ensure the safety and quality of production line operations, fully meeting the market's demand for automated production. The "Equipment Monitoring and Health Management System" integrates the SPIEDER D Series (IoT data acquisition device) and APES (Anomaly detection & Prognostic of Equipment System). By installing sensors on the equipment to collect data, it can calculate and predict the health status of the machines, allowing users to take timely maintenance measures, reduce the risk of damage, and thus improve production efficiency.
At the Taiwan Excellence Awards, AUO demonstrated its strong capabilities in extending technological innovation to diverse applications, while also embracing environmental sustainability and fulfilling its corporate social responsibility. Moving forward, AUO will continue to lead the industry, build a collaborative ecosystem, and strive to provide global customers with more creative and valuable solutions.
