Development of an Ear-clip-type Optical Biosensor for a Fleet Management System to Detect Drivers’ Drowsiness

In recent years, there has been accelerated development of an intelligent transportation systems (ITS) cloud information service. The authors have pioneered a service called “SPATIOWL,” which can provide added value to information after various kinds of information have been gathered, analyzed, and reproduced using a sensor network. As part of the technology incorporated into ITS, various characteristics of the driver are also required, and the development of a biosensor that can monitor drivers’ conditions is very important. In this paper, the authors describe the introduction of an ear-clip-type biosensor in a cloud-based fleet management system. The biosensor has the ability to accurately detect drivers’ drowsiness from the viewpoint of the wearer’s comfort, and accurately measures heartbeat signals. The authors experiments confirm that the sensor is pleasant and comfortable when worn continuously for more than 4 hours, and it provides a high level of accuracy relative to an ECG reference.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Nakano, Yasuhiko
  • Tomimori, Hideki
  • Sano, Satoshi
  • Masuda, Yuta
  • Odagiri, Junichi
  • Kadonaka, Hikaru
• Conference:
  • 19th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2012-10-22 to 2012-10-26
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 7p
• Monograph Title: 19th ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria, 22 to 26 October 2012

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cloud computing; Detectors; Driver performance; Fleet management; Intelligent transportation systems; Sensors; Technological innovations
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01499035
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 21 2013 9:14AM