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Driver Vitals Sentinel — Drowsiness & Incapacitation

Notices a driver going drowsy — or suddenly unwell — without a camera.

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An alert driver constantly makes small posture adjustments; a drowsy one goes quieter and quieter while breathing slows and evens out. A medical collapse is different again: a sudden slump, then almost nothing but breathing. Each state has its own signal rhythm, and no camera ever points at the driver.

In the physics: Drowsiness changes the micro-motion spectrum: postural micro-adjustments (0.5-5Hz) decay in rate and amplitude while breathing slows and regularizes; incapacitation shows as abrupt collapse transient followed by abnormally static channel with only respiration present.
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How the field becomes an answer

Micro-Doppler feature extraction 0.1-5Hz per-driver adaptive PCA baseline of normal fidget/breathing manifold MVE deviation scoring CUSUM on movement-rate drift across the shift for slow drowsiness onset.

How we prove it

OPERAnet respiration + SenseFi activity benchmarks for the feature stack; own study: 20 drivers in a driving simulator with PERCLOS eye-tracking as drowsiness ground truth.

Who it is for

DMS regulation compliance (EU GSR) without an in-cab camera that drivers rip out — sold to truck OEMs and fleet safety officers battling camera pushback from driver unions.

runtime Runs today in LatentField 2.0 as breathing_rate

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