acusensusfamous for its mobile phone detection camera, is developing a camera that can detect drivers under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
It says it plans to roll these out in Australia and overseas.
The Melbourne-based company is working with the Federal Office for Road Safety and Griffith University to develop AI-based technology to measure concentration, reaction time, controllability and determination. driver’s impairment, all in real time.
Using driver behaviors such as speeding, trajectory patterns and lateral movement in the lane, the technology can send information to local police officers to enforce fines and take the next action.
During development, the company said 7News that’s using a simulator that features computer-generated versions of real roads in many Australian cities to understand the behavior of sober or drunk drivers.
Drivers are tested in an alcohol simulator to collect data on their driving patterns.
The data has yet to be implemented into the camera hardware, however the company says iTire it plans to do so after the data has been analyzed correctly.
During a real-world deployment, the hardware could be located anywhere, anytime but would first be tested in a stationary trailer a few hundred meters from a police patrol vehicle.
The software uses a four-step process: deployment, capture, analysis, and automated evaluation.
At a very high level, the software will capture images of vehicles passing through a number of cameras, infrared flash, lenses and filtering systems, and then feed that image into an AI-based software that will play present substances that are likely to be drugs or alcohol. affected driver.
The system then reviews and sends the images to police officers for live verification to determine if officers are required to pull over and check for affected drivers.
The company says the goal of the technology is to significantly reduce the number of deaths caused by driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
One challenge the company is currently tackling is distinguishing models between good, bad, and impaired drivers.
Acusensus was founded in 2018 and currently has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, UK and Las Vegas.
It is responsible for camera detection programs in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
The company says since the NSW Mobile Phone Detection Camera Program was launched, camera-detected mobile phone breaches have dropped sixfold and road fatalities have dropped by more than 20 per cent .
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