Seeing Machines wins mining contract

8th Aug 2011 07:31

Seeing Machines, which makes systems that monitor drivers' facial movements to detect drowsiness, has announced a new contract for its Driver State System (DSS) with Toll Mining Services in Australia. Toll Mining Services, part of logistics company Toll Group, has contracted Seeing Machines to implement its DSS across its road-going mining trucks at the CapCoal German Creek mine in the Bowen Basin, Queensland. The DSS is a system that monitors the driver of a vehicle for distraction and fatigue events and provides a series of interventions aimed at managing these events and averting potential operator caused accidents. Ken Kroeger, chief executive of Seeing Machines, said: "This contract is important as it represents a transitionary step from mining's off-highway haul trucks to road-going haul vehicles as Seeing Machines sees a huge opportunity in selling the DSS to the broader on highway trucking fleets."NR