Lytx Inc. unveiled Oct. 14 Lytx ActiveVision service available for select Lytx DriveCam clients immediately, and industry-wide in January. The ActiveVision service will be publicly demonstrated this weekend at the 2015 American Trucking Associations Management Conference & Exhibition in Philadelphia.
The ActiveVision service is a safety solution that helps detect and address distracted and drowsy driving and following too close, all potentially dangerous and costly driving behaviors that often go undetected.
The ActiveVision service uses analytics to identify patterns of behavior that are indicative of distracted and/or drowsy driving, and then uses video to help pinpoint the possible root causes.
“The most sophisticated technology in the cab will always be the human operator,” said Lytx Chairman and CEO Brandon Nixon. “So we created a system to augment the natural strengths of the human driver that leverages vast amounts of data, understands what that data means – and what’s important, and how that data can be used to make the roads safer for everyone. The ActiveVision service is the latest innovation from nearly two decades of research and development, and the insights from expert human review of more than 28 billion miles driven.”
The ActiveVision service executes pattern detection to address otherwise hidden patterns, such as lane departures, improper fitness to lane, or following too closely, which are top indicators of risky driving behaviors.
“Lytx, with the launch of the ActiveVision service, is priming to deliver comprehensiveness in the video safety market,” said Sathyanarayana K, research manager for Automotive & Transportation for Frost & Sullivan. “With real-time driver alerts and feedback, the Lytx ActiveVision service can reduce the risk of potential collision through a collective understanding of drivers’ in-cab behavioral patterns and on-road driving style (i.e., lane departure, following distance, and fitness to lane).”
