Design and Implementation of a Drowsiness-Fatigue-Detection System Based on Wearable Smart Glasses to Increase Road Safety

This paper proposes a drowsiness-fatigue-detection system based on wearable smart glasses to increase road safety. The proposed system is composed of a pair of wearable smart glasses, an in-vehicle infotainment telematics platform, an on-board diagnostics-II-based automotive diagnostic bridge, an active vehicle rear light alert mechanism, and a cloud-based management platform. A dedicated miniature bandpass infrared (IR) light sensor is also proposed and implemented for the low-cost, lightweight, wearable smart glasses, which can provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio than a general commercial IR light sensor, minimize the ambient environmental light image, and efficiently increase the accuracy of detection. The proposed system can detect the status of the vehicle driver with respect to drowsiness or fatigue conditions in real time. When drowsiness or fatigue is detected, the active vehicle real light alert mechanism will automatically be flickered to alert following vehicles. The related information will also be concurrently transmitted to a cloud-based management platform. As a result, the proposed system can lead to increased road safety.