Olea Sensor Networks Launches Seat Belt Technology

In a quest to boost protection of car occupants, intelligent sensors and analytic developer Olea Sensor Networks has launched OS-3005 technology to improve a vehicle’s existing seat belt systems.

The company’s OleaSense software analytics is a seat belt vital sign monitor for automotive safety applications designed to enhance the seat belt systems based on Olea’s sensor technologies. The beauty of the system is that it does not need any external wires and does not necessarily have to be in contact with the body to operate.

It might be smaller than a business card but it is highly capable of integrating seamlessly into existing automotive safety restraint systems. The technology can also recognize occupants when used as part of the infotainment system. Utilizing Olea HeartSignature technology, it can recall driver preferences and stored settings. The HeartSignature can accurately recognize inpiduals with precision comparable to existing biometric authentication systems.

Frank Morese, CEO of Olea, said that the concept of seat occupancy detection monitoring needs a state-of-the-art sensing technology capable of capturing human vital signs in a reliable manner. He explained that the concept of seat occupancy detection monitoring needs an advanced sensing technology capable of capturing human vital signs in a reliable manner. Through integration of the OleaSense and OS-3005 technologies, detection of human vital signs inside the vehicle now becomes part of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).

Morese concluded that OleaSense system also augments next-gen IoT telematics systems to automatically and quickly call first responders following a crash, sending vital sign statistics to evaluate the conditions and identities of the driver and passengers involved.