Driver Monitoring System (DMS)
Detect distraction, drowsiness and impairment in real time. Our DMS is in more than 4M cars on the road, selected by 24 manufacturers across 376 models — for safer roads and better mobility experiences.
How it works
A Driver Monitoring System uses in-car cameras, computer vision and AI to interpret the driver’s state and behavior. Through eye, head and gaze tracking with an infrared camera, it detects when a driver is inattentive or drowsy — and can prompt the driver to refocus or, if needed, support the vehicle in bringing itself safely to a stop. Built on Human Insight AI and trained on large-scale, real-world automotive data, it performs reliably across lighting conditions, hardware and vehicle types.
What it detects
Our AI-based DMS offers a range of features to enhance driver safety and personalize experiences.
Recognizes the driver to personalize the car and confirm it’s driven by an authorized driver.
Tracks eye, head, and face movement to catch distraction and the earliest signs of fatigue, keeping focus on the road ahead.
Detects behavior that pulls attention away, like eating, drinking, smoking or phone use.
Identifies objects in the vehicle and how the driver interacts with them.
Recognizes what the driver is doing, and whether they’re focused on driving.
Tracks how the driver is sitting, moving and interacting with the vehicle.
Powered by Affectiva, reads the driver’s mood, emotions and reactions in real time.
Draws on posture and eye, head and face movement to help indicate the driver’s state.
Developed for different mobility customers
OEMs
Tier 1s
Built for embedded deployment
Automotive safety leaves no room for compromise. We develop our software to ASIL quality standards, following Automotive SPICE processes, in close collaboration with the industry. It’s hardware-agnostic and engineered to run efficiently on limited in-vehicle hardware — so it integrates into any platform, in any vehicle, and adapts to each customer’s needs. The SDK is the standardized entry point to evaluate, integrate and deploy it.
The regulatory landscape
Every 24 seconds, a life is lost in traffic, and most of these accidents stem from distraction or fatigue. That has driven a clear shift: driver monitoring has moved from an exclusive feature in premium cars to an expected safety system.
The US, the EU and China are each rolling out requirements for driver monitoring to address distraction and drowsiness — and our software already meets Euro NCAP, the EU General Safety Regulation (GSR) and China’s GB/T standards for driver monitoring.
Learn what Euro NCAP’s assessment protocol means for new car models, and what it takes to earn a five-star rating — in our e-book.
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Interior Sensing
Interior Sensing extends monitoring from the driver to every occupant enabling safety, comfort and wellbeing features across the cabin.
DMS for Fleets & Aftermarket
Proven DMS, ready to install. The same automotive-grade driver monitoring software, as a complete system for vehicle fleets and small-volume OEMs.
Talk to our automotive team about integrating human understanding into your next vehicle program.
Driver Monitoring Systems FAQ
Our driver monitoring software is hardware-agnostic and built to automotive standards — developed to ASIL quality following Automotive SPICE processes — so it integrates into an OEM or Tier 1 platform rather than requiring dedicated hardware. It runs embedded, on-device, on limited in-vehicle compute, and we work with engineering teams from evaluation through to production, with the SDK as the standardized entry point.
Yes. The software runs directly on in-vehicle hardware with no cloud dependency, and is engineered for a small compute footprint so it fits within the constraints of production hardware. It performs reliably across lighting conditions, cameras and vehicle types.
It works with an in-car camera and infrared illumination, and because it’s hardware-agnostic, it supports flexible camera placement and a range of sensors — so it can be designed into different cabins and platforms rather than dictating the hardware.
Yes. We develop to ASIL quality standards and follow Automotive SPICE processes, in close collaboration with the automotive industry — because driver monitoring is a safety system where there’s no room for error.
Our driver monitoring software meets Euro NCAP, the EU General Safety Regulation (GSR) and China’s GB/T standards for driver monitoring, and we take part in the expert groups shaping these protocols. A program building on our DMS is positioned for the ratings and requirements that increasingly apply to new vehicles.
Driver monitoring focuses on the driver’s state and behavior; interior sensing extends the same core technology to the whole cabin and every occupant. They share a foundation, so a program can start with driver monitoring and expand to interior sensing.