The best DMS solution, FOVIO Chip, ready for Euro NCAP
Seeing Machines has launched a variant of its FOVIO Driver Monitoring Chip solution to specifically address the European New Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP) requirements for driver drowsiness and distraction detection to achieve safety ratings from 2022.
The newest variant of the FOVIO Chip solution, optimized for basic Euro NCAP systems with the flexibility to support the most advanced DMS requirements, now represents the highest performing, smallest and lowest cost, driver monitoring solution on the market. This solution is further enabled through Seeing Machines’ ongoing innovations in highly optimized embedded neural inference processing for FOVIO-enabled versions of Xilinx Automotive Zynq-7000 SoCs.
“While NCAP is always associated with the need for low cost, many in the industry are also realizing that performance and effectiveness cannot be sacrificed to reach the goals of improved driver safety,” Nick DiFiore, SVP of Automotive commented on the newest achievement.
“Our experienced and capable research and engineering teams are demonstrating that ‘no compromise’ low-cost solutions are possible, as we realize more enhanced AI capabilities on even lower cost industry standard devices though our ongoing silicon partnership with Xilinx. This is a great outcome as we continue to focus on supporting our customers and partners in the automotive industry with a DMS solution that is sensibly priced, scalable, simple to integrate in relatively short timeframes, and continues to deliver on the Seeing Machines performance promise.”
The Seeing Machines FOVIO Chip solution was introduced in 2018 offering its industry leading DMS technology on a fully scalable platform, with the ability to leverage the complete range of DMS features on an optimized SoC (System on Chip). Three of the Seeing Machines’ ongoing automotive programs are currently being delivered via this platform.
DMS technology is set to become standard in most modern passenger cars for improved driver and semi-automated driving safety given Euro NCAP’s direction, with reinforcement by the European Commission, and more recently, the United States’ National Transportation Safety Board, in an effort to curb driver drowsiness and distraction and improve safety for pedestrians and passengers alike.
Las Vegas, 7 January 2020
