

With too many false positives, consumers won’t take any resulting alert seriously.Īlternatively, we can use existing hardware in the vehicle to provide some basic intelligence. Sense when there is a child left in a vehicle. For the system to be effective, it also has to avoid false positives - that is, the system has to accurately Obstructions to detect an infant’s breathing or pulse, and represent the most comprehensive approach to child presence detection.

Aptiv’s sensing capabilities can enable us to see through heavy blankets or other The good news is that we now have the technologies to make these accidents a thing of the past, and I’m excited to be writing about the work we are doing in this area.Īptiv has developed a system that is able to monitor babies, young children or even pets, through a combination of advanced sensors and sophisticated algorithms. That it will start to award rating points for child presence detection in 2022. For example, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) has announced Regulatory agencies around the globe have recognized the need for technology solutions providing child presence detection that can help prevent these kinds of accidents. On a hot day, a small child trapped in a vehicle is especially vulnerable, and in each of the last two years more than 50 children have died due to vehicular heatstroke in the United States alone. It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: accidentally leaving a child in a car.
