Fatigue Monitoring Systems
Fatigue Monitoring Systems from Seeing Machines of
Canberra, Australia is a system designed to prevent accidents caused by sleepy truck
drivers and in early tests has reduced fatigue events by 72%. An infrared
camera that can see even through sunglasses sends images to a computer that
assesses the amount of driver eye blinking to predict the possibility of
microsleeps. These microsleeps that occur during drowsy or distracted driving
can cause the driver to lose control of the truck with tragic results. An eyes on road message booms out if the
driver appears distracted and if there is inattention due to microsleep occurs
a shrill alarm goes off and a wireless message is sent to the company to let
them know they have a sleepy driver. There has been a lot of positive interest
in this system in the trucking world with Caterpillar installing the $10,000
systems in all their mining trucks. I bet I would find the Fatigue Monitoring
System quite useful around my house (which could use a serious spring cleaning)
lately. But most likely I’ll just opt to save the 10K and take a nap.
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