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Interview with Dylan Young – Race Car Driver, Safety Advocate and Optalert Ambassador

Motor racing is both a physically challenging and mentally demanding sport. Its associated with a high degree of safety risk for drivers, whereby the slightest error could lead to fatal consequences. Drowsiness and inattentiveness are amongst the most dangerous risks faced by any driver, yet alone a race car driver who’s preparing to be …

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Safely navigating through a crisis

Automotive, Goods & Passenger Transport, Mining, Neurology, Pharmaceutical / By optalert

2020 will go down as one of the most difficult for companies and leaders around the world. The corona virus has taken lives, isolated families, closed airports and put a fear into many like never before. Whilst most of us have had the privilege of a stable life occupied with routine, the future is now …

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What’s the difference between fatigue and drowsiness?

Automotive / By optalert

Sleep is essential for your brain function as well as your body. Medical research shows sleep loss has detrimental effects on our health from weight gain to a weakened immune system. It can impact memory, increase risk of accidents, diabetes, the likelihood of cancers and has profound effects on the cardiovascular system1. Even a …

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Optalert named in Top 5 Global Driver Monitoring Startups Automotive

Automotive / By optalert

Top 5 Out Of 200 Driver Monitoring Startups In Automotive StartUs INSIGHTS article: We analyzed 200 Driver Monitoring startups in the automotive industry. Sighthound, Optalert, CardioID, Edge3, and Sober Steering are our 5 picks to watch out for. To learn more about the global distribution of these 5 and 195 more startups, check out …

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Their image analysis reveals who you are – giants on the customer list

Automotive / By optalert

Di – Swedish financial site – Published:January 18, 2020 After just over ten years of revenue darkness, Visage Technologies began selling its technology to analyze facial images. “It was our breakthrough,” says Jörgen Ahlberg. Photo: Henrik Lenngren It started out as a less lucrative hobby business for some researchers who needed to “code off”. Today, Visage Technologies …

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Optalert Drowsiness & Attentiveness Monitoring

Automotive / By optalert

Optalert is pleased to announce the availability of its latest driver monitoring software solution. Providing the most advanced measure of drowsiness & attentiveness in the automotive market, this gives Tier 1’s the ability to embed the technology directly into their driver monitoring systems (DMS). The patented Optalert Johns Drowsiness Scale (JDS) provides a continuous numerical …

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Press Release – Optalert awarded Australian Government – Automotive Innovation Lab Access Grant

Automotive / By optalert

Latest News Today, Melbourne based Medtech company, Optalert Australia, were announced as the recipient of the Australian Government – Automotive Innovation Lab Access Grant (AILAG). The grant will be used to advance the development of the Optalert Video Automotive technology solution for the objective, early prediction of drowsiness and attentiveness monitoring. The project aims to …

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Supporting Industry 4.0 initiatives

Automotive, Goods & Passenger Transport, Mining / By optalert

Connecting the physical world with the digital world Industry 4.0 fundamentally changes the way in which businesses create and capture value. This shift is enabled by a set of technologies including autonomous robots, simulation technology, system integration, the Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, cloud computing, additive manufacturing, augmented reality and big data. Industry 4.0 technologies …

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Optalert in World first in fatigue research study

Automotive / By optalert

The National Transport Commission (NTC) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Alertness, Safety and Productivity (Alertness CRC) today released the results of a world-first study into heavy vehicle driver fatigue. The two-year scientific study evaluated alertness monitoring technology and the impacts of work shifts on driver alertness. It analysed shift start time, the number of …

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Las Vegas CES2019 Highlights

Automotive, Pharmaceutical / By optalert

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES2019) dazzled participants once again with glimpses of technologies and products on the horizon for the future. With over 180,000 attendees from 150 different countries, circulating over 11 venues throughout Las Vegas. Optalert’s key conversations at this year’s event included autonomous vehicles, enhanced ‘early warning’ drowsiness and distraction features, and AI …

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