From mid-2024, all new models of passenger vehicles in Europe require a driver monitoring system (DMS) that can detect drowsiness. Engineers across the automotive industry have generally used one of three ground truths to measure drowsiness in drivers. Ground truth Description  JDS  Johns Drowsiness Scale Eyelid movements are a window into the cognitive state of...

Imagine if automotive regulation allowed seat belts to unlatch or airbags to fail to deploy in over half of severe collisions. And legislators were dragging their feet on raising the minimum standard for fault tolerance. In such a scenario, who should fix the problem? Thankfully seatbelts and airbags are mature, well understood technologies, and the...

Optalert’s Johns Drowsiness Scale (JDS) accurately quantifies impairment caused by drowsiness, surpassing competing technologies in predictive power. This post outlines how Optalert has been able to quantify the relative risk of a driver’s impairment from drowsiness with a unique biomarker. It is independent of age, gender, or ethnicity. These claims are substantiated through both internal...

Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) can now achieve both EU General Safety Regulation (GSR) compliance and European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) assessment using Optalert’s non-invasive Johns Drowsiness Scale (JDS™) as the ground truth. Numerous automotive technical services firms in Europe, including UTAC, TÜV Rheinland, and Applus+ IDIADA, have reviewed the evidence and confirmed...

When we commonly speak of drowsiness, we may use a range of terms interchangeably, such as fatigue, tiredness, or sleepiness. In common speech, this is fine. But for the purposes of understanding the underlying science, we need to be more precise around what each of these words mean. Drowsiness is not fatigue Fatigue is defined...

What is Optalert’s experience in measuring drowsiness in the field? How do we see this technology reaching maturity in the automotive sector? What is the difference between objective and subjective measures of drowsiness? How does Optalert see drowsiness measurement evolving in the future? In the lead-up to the InCabin conference in Phoenix next week, our...

Optalert has more than 20 years’ expertise in drowsiness, developed primarily in its work for the mining industry, wherein the equipment and vehicles; the payloads; the operator cognitive loads; and the consequences of an accident caused by drowsiness are all enormous. That’s the demanding environment in which Optalert has grown its know-how. Follow the link...

Join us at InCabin 2022 and hear from Dr Trefor Morgan, Optalert General Manager – Research and Development, who will be delivering a session on Measuring and Demystifying Drowsiness. Session Synopsis If done correctly, drowsiness can be quantified from its early stage through to the late stages. There is a biological based change that occurs...

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Optalert is excited to announce Release 7.0 of the Optalert Drowsiness Software Development Kit. The updated SDK will be available at the end of June 2022 for Tier 1 and OEM customers and all developers of Driver Monitoring Systems for the Automotive industry.  Headline features include: Objective and predictive drowsiness protection Now with real-time driver state detection and...