Intelligent cabin for road transport

NEWS from 2007/11/7:
The regional government of the Principado de Asturias funds research studies for the ‘monitoring of drivers’ in vehicle cabins
Herminio Sastre, Deputy Counsellor of Science and Technology in the Principado de Asturias, presented today in Oviedo at the the Hotel Tryp the ‘Cabintecc’ project : Intelligent Vehicle Cabin for Road Transport.

This initiative, supported by a number of Spanish technological centres and funded by the Ministry for Education and Science with eight million euros, intends to improve road safety by means of computer applications. The project co-ordinator, Alfonso Brazález, stated that the goal of this technological initiative is to increase road safety through the monitoring of the driver’s state of alertness, as well as his unsuitable behaviour at the steering-wheel.

Asturias, ECTV

At a press conference, the Deputy Counsellor declared that projects like ‘Cabintec’ are useful for tackling such social problems as road safety and he reminded the listeners that the future of innovating companies and technological centres will very much depend on the people working for them.

Sastre added that the Principado de Asturias will allocate six more million euros in 2008 to stimulate research in private companies through public-private partnerships (PPP).

Alfonso Brazález, as project co-ordinator of ‘Cabintec’, declared that this technological project aims to improve road safety by monitoring the driver’s state of alertness, together with his behaviour at the steering-wheel. ‘Safe driving is our objective’, he said.

Apart from monitoring the driver, this application is aimed at reducing driving-related stress, simplifying the formalities following an accident and increasing the level of concentration at the steering-wheel.

The ‘Cabintec’ system allows the vehicle to receive not only static information, but also a large series of data regarding environmental and traffic conditions. According to the project co-ordinator, what makes this project unique is the fact that it draws together all the players presently working on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).

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