MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641042588 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 2, for 'driver health and alertness monitoring system and method thereof.'
Inventor(s) include Krithiga. R; Vangimalla Navya Sre; Prabuddha; Monica K M; P Manimaran; and Manigandan M.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A driver health and alertness monitoring system (100) may include a vehicle steering wheel (102), a plurality of biosensors (104) associated with the steering wheel (102), and a controller (106) operatively coupled to the biosensors (104). Controller (106) may receive, via a data acquisition module, multimodal sensor data including physiological, electrodermal, and motion data to extract driver health and behaviour features; analyze data using a machine learning engine to identify indicators of driver fatigue, stress, or unsafe steering behaviour; determine a driver health or alertness state via a predictive analytics engine; classify the state into predefined categories via a risk assessment module; and, when a predefined threshold is exceeded, display a real-time alert on an onboard screen, generate an audible alert, transmit an emergency notification including vehicle location to pre-registered contacts or services, and upload alert and associated driver health data to a remote system (130)."
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