Seeing Machines' 'Guardian' travels more than one billion kilometres

29th Aug 2018 14:42

(Sharecast News) - Computer vision technology company Seeing Machines announced on Wednesday that its Guardian Driver Monitoring System (DMS) had now travelled more than one billion kilometres in more than 24 countries, collecting real world, naturalistic driving data.The AIM-traded firm said Guardian was its retrofit solution for commercial fleets in public transport and logistics.It said Guardian provided real-time, in-cabin alerts when fatigue or distraction was detected by sensors that could monitor the driver.The product reportedly worked in all light conditions, including night driving and when the driver was wearing sunglasses.Guardian was connected to a 24/7 monitoring centre, with a cloud analytics engine that gave the fleet owners a "variety" of customisable intervention and analytics programs.Since its launch in 2016, Guardian had been used in commercial trucks and buses covering more than 1.3 billion kilometres (812 million miles), and had detected more than 3.6 million fatigue and distraction related driver events.The company said that data was critical to the human factors research and development, and provided the platform from which the Seeing Machines automotive-grade driver monitoring technology had been developed and refined.That real world, on road data enabled Seeing Machines to offer "market leading" driver monitoring technology based on "highly comprehensive and meaningful" information."The 1.3 billion kilometres of data we have gathered since launching Guardian underpins our clear market leadership in the development and deployment of effective driver monitoring systems that demonstrably enhance transport safety across a range of verticals," said Seeing Machines chief executive officer Ken Kroeger."In addition to the positive impact Guardian has on driver safety, the data collected has provided Seeing Machines with a robust machine learning platform and has played an integral role in the development of our FOVIO DME (driver monitoring engine)."