Personalized and empathic Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for increased safety and comfort

Preh Car Connect develops Driver Monitoring System (DMS)

Classic Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) focus externally on the vehicle. They have access to
the powertrain and to the vehicle management and control systems and help to avoid accidents and reduce fuel
consumption, thereby increasing fuel efficiency. Many of these systems are already equipped as standard, and
modern vehicles could no longer be imagined without them. Cruise control, electronic stability program (ESP),
anti-lock brake system (ABS), emergency brake assistant or parking aids are all systems that support the driver.
Other systems such as tire pressure monitoring systems, blind spot monitoring and distance warning/forward
alert anti-collision systems warn drivers about critical systems.

The data required for the vehicle assistance systems is supplied by sensors that monitor various vehicle components and the vehicle surroundings. This is often done by combining measured values from
multiple sensor systems. The large data volumes that are collected in the process are automatically evaluated. In the networked traffic systems of the future, this will be supplemented with further information from the cloud, from other vehicles or from smart infrastructure.

This means that communication is becoming increasingly more important for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems as well. Preh Car Connect is helping shape this trend with its own developments. We are already linking Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) with future topics such as cloud services, telematics and autonomous driving.

Empathic Assistant shifts
focus to driver comfort and wellbeing

A new generation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
has an inward focus on the driver and looks after the comfort
and wellbeing of the driver. Preh Car Connect is working on
a Driver Monitoring System (DMS), which uses biosensors
and an Empathic Assistant to detect the emotional and physical
state of the driver and respond accordingly. In extreme
emergencies, such as serious health problems, this system
could even stop the vehicle and send out an emergency
call for assistance.

The Empathic Assistant from Preh Car Connect also adapts to the load on the driver – and in the long
term, it is planned for the system to also monitor the wellbeing of passengers in the car. At present,
if the driver is stressed the system will only display information that is important for driving safety.
Apart from this, it can e.g. block incoming calls.

User experience and augmented reality are among the core competences of Preh Car Connect.
At our Dresden Development Center, experts are working on intelligent systems that are capable of analyzing
information and selecting relevant information and presenting it in an appropriate format so that it can help
the driver and offer assistance in specific situations.

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Vehicle recognizes the driver
and responds to his/her preferences

When it comes to the wellbeing of the driver, this is where the topic of personalization
comes into play. If a car is used by several drivers, in the past it was always necessary
to make numerous manual adjustments whenever the driver changed – from adjusting
the seat and mirrors to calling up preferred air conditioning settings and selecting the
favorite radio station. With a personalization system, this effort is reduced significantly.
Preh Car Connect is one of the pioneers of the technology required to do this.

Here, the preferences and personal settings of each driver are saved in the car as a
data record by the software and can be called up at any time whenever required.
This enables each driver to create his or her preferred ambience in the car – from the
interior temperature to the displays and the volume of any signals.

Depending on the vehicle model and equipment level, various services can be
personalized. The number of functions that can be adapted to personal preferences
is set to grow significantly over the coming years. For example, the navigation system
can also take into account the preferences and interests of the driver.

Natural speech as an additional feature

Natural speech voice control is a feature that can be added to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and
infotainment systems – also independently of the Driver Monitoring System. These new speech-based assistant
systems react to a natural, intuitive flow of speech and make voice-controlled operation and control of a range of different
functions and assistance systems in the car even more user-friendly. Work is in progress in the development department
of Preh Car Connect to incorporate natural speech functions in the overall system.

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