Smart Eye and Sony Advance Vehicle Safety with In-Cabin Sensing and Authentication

• Smart Eye’s software integrates with Sony’s new RGB-IR sensor to enhance driver monitoring and occupant detection.
• The system enables distraction detection, posture monitoring, and secure identity authentication, aligning with upcoming EU safety regulations.

Smart Eye is working with Sony Semiconductor Solutions to integrate its driver monitoring and cabin sensing software with Sony’s latest image sensor. By combining high-performance imaging with AI-driven interior sensing and iris authentication, the collaboration aims to enhance vehicle safety and enable personalized in-car features.

Sony’s IMX775 is a high-resolution image sensor that captures both visible RGB and infrared light, making it suitable for in-cabin monitoring under any lighting conditions. Combined with Smart Eye’s software, it enables features like distraction and drowsiness detection, seatbelt and posture monitoring, and helps automakers meet upcoming EU safety rules such as the General Safety Regulation and Euro NCAP protocols.

This partnership combines hardware-level cybersecurity with iris-based authentication software to enable secure access to infotainment, digital payments, and other personalized features. Smart Eye says the system is already set for production with a major OEM.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

As more sensors become standard in vehicles, the car is emerging as a dense, real-time environment for AI-driven perception systems, which can unlock new safety, convenience, and identity features.

Source: ACCESS Newswire / Smart Eye