The human factor causes 93% of accidents

Today, tele-surveillance technology is extremely pervasive and widely used in our cities to make them safer. Only a few years ago we would have worried about such a massive use of cameras but the truth is that thanks to them we can avoid a large number of dangers.

The use of cameras on board vehicles dedicated to passenger transport in particular has only recently become widespread, but has guaranteed the same type of benefits.

However, being passive by nature, cameras can do little in all circumstances where the driver is a risk factor.

According to the Georgia Institute of Technology, 80% of accidents are caused by a distraction of the driver of a vehicle in the immediately preceding three seconds. Finally, confirmation of this data comes from a research sponsored by the insurance company Axa which shows that an acoustic warning 1.5 seconds before an accident can prevent 90% of these accidents.

Active safety: what is it?

We said that surveillance cameras are a passive means, but does it happen if they are associated with the ability to process images guaranteed by artificial intelligence? We get a tireless electronic eye, generically defined with the term ADAS, able to promptly warn the driver of any potentially dangerous. But how many different types of this type of technology exist?

The answer is three

• Driver Status Monitor: detects any situation where the driver is distracted, tired or intent on prohibited actions such as smoking, drinking or talking on the phone
• Advanced Drive Assistance System: System that constantly detects the distance to the following vehicle and warns the driver if this distance is less than the minimum braking distance
• Blind Spot Detection: System that detects stationary or moving obstacles within the vehicle's steering line to the right .

Benefits ensured by active safety systems

• They reduce the likelihood of an accident
• They reduce reaction times to dangerous situations
• It decreases the opportunities for distraction
• They include acoustic warnings both inside and outside the vehicle

Safety at the highest levels

By coupling the active safety system with the 360 ° perimeter vision system , an unparalleled level of protection is obtained for all vehicles. The 360 ° vision system in fact allows with only 4 or 6 cameras to reconstruct the image of the whole space and surrounding a vehicle in a single monitor.

Azimut also offers its customers a unique application called BusBrain to access in real time the video signal coming from all the systems we have talked about. Accumulated records can also be used as legal evidence to ascertain liability in the event of an accident.