Samsara’s AI-Powered Drowsiness Detection Now Generally Available to Customers Globally
Drowsiness Detection accurately detects and alerts against leading cause of severe road accidents to keep drivers safe
The National Safety Council reports that drivers are three times more likely to be in a crash if they are fatigued, and according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, more than
“It’s hard to detect when someone is truly drowsy. It’s more than a single behavior, like yawning or having your eyes closed. Drowsiness can be less common than other risky driving behaviors, so accurate detection is only as good as the data that feeds and trains AI models,” explained Evan Welbourne, VP of AI and Data at Samsara. “That’s where the scale of Samsara’s data sets our solution apart. We train our models on more than 38 billion minutes of video footage within our platform to provide high accuracy and impact for our customers.”
To ensure accuracy, Samsara’s comprehensive Drowsiness Detection is trained to consider several behaviors that indicate fatigue, in alignment with leading and clinically validated standards for defining drowsiness. These behaviors include: head nodding, slouching, prolonged eye closure, yawning, rubbing eyes, and more. Yawning alone is often not a sufficient detector of drowsiness. In fact, an analysis1 among early adopters of Samsara’s Drowsiness Detection found that approximately
Samsara first announced Drowsiness Detection at its annual Beyond conference in June, which gathered more than 2,000 physical operations leaders across the industry. Since then, customers have already experienced meaningful impact. For example, one of the largest oilfield services companies in the
Samsara’s petabyte-scale dataset collects more than 10 trillion data points each year and is used to train AI models that automate workflows, accelerate time to value, and provide personalized, actionable insights for customers. In one year alone, Samsara’s Video-Based Safety solutions have helped prevent more than 200,000 crashes among customers worldwide.
Drowsiness Detection is now generally available globally to customers. To learn more, visit https://www.samsara.com/products/safety/dash-cam
Additional Resources:
- Now available for Samsara customers globally: AI-powered Drowsiness Detection
- Fall 2024 Product Quarterly Webinar
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1 Aggregated analysis of over 35,000 detections across a cohort of fifty customers since July, 2024
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