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A company of Saint-Hubert, ECT (Effective Control Transport), located on the boulevard Sir-Wilfrid-Bay-tree, recently developed a software which detects the degradation of the state of vigilance of an individual. Indeed, CRAMtm wants to be a software which detects the level of concentration of an individual. Not limiting itself only to tiredness, it also detects the state of vigilance following the consumption of drugs or alcohol. “The apparatus detects it in a proactive way. It does not wait the moment when you fall asleep to send a signal to you. Our apparatus detects up to one hour in advance of the signs of lack of concentration at the wheel”, mentioned the Communications vice-president at ECT, Yves Cournoyer. Single in Canada, it is about an apparatus which is smaller than a GPS and which is put on the windshield or the console of a truck. Optical sensors analyze the physiognomical points (blinkings of the eyes, size of the eyelids and the yawn) and, using several calculations, concludes the state from it from degradation of vigilance of an individual. Nonintrusive detector Three levels are supervised, that is to say the level of complete vigilance, the less level, under which the individual is located in a state of hypovigilance, as well as the level of incapacity to performer. “CRAMtm functions by a nonintrusive detector”, added Mr. Cournoyer. “One does not film the person, one does not take a photograph. There is no physical contact between the apparatus and the driver. ” As soon as a reduction in the level of alarm is detected, the operator and a predetermined person (a distributor, for example, for the truck-drivers) is alerted in real-time, thus allowing them to plan a pause. Although is not an apparatus marketed, since company ECT chose rather to go with distribution networks, Mr. Cournoyer affirmed that “it is initially intended towards the truck drivers”. On the other hand, in Australia, a law was recently adopted which will oblige, in 2010, all the drivers, including the motorists, to provide with a system of detection of vigilance, but not necessarily that manufactured in Saint-Hubert. There is the different one. In California, the State began to refund 50% of the cost of purchase of these apparatuses. To Quebec, Mr. Cournoyer indicated that the discussions continue, with the ministry for Transport, even if the apparatus is already in application to certain places, in particular at the Robert Group, which uses already about fifteen units since last July.
