Intelligent Health Monitoring Systems In Your Car

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, CALIFORNIA, USA. Researchers are currently working on a system that will log all your driving habits. The system is called Nigel and it is a joint project between researchers at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the giant car company brand BMW. They are working on their line of Mini Cooper cars that will have 230 sensors that will monitor everything going on inside the vehicle.

Meanwhile, researchers at the Center for Body Computing branch of the same university are also working on adding health monitoring features on the cars. They are aiming to make the new monitoring system beneficial to its users. With the use of smartphones, they will be able to view all the information collected by Nigel. It will be easier to study your driving habits with the new system because it will show you logs of every single activity you do in your car while driving. Soon, Nigel will also become a health-monitoring system.

Leslie Saxon is heading the research and she is also the chief of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Southern California. She said that there could be a point in time where the new system will be able to tell the driver when it is safe to drive around a polluted area or not. It should also be able to tell you your heart rate when you drive. Soon, other car brands like Ford could carry the new technology as well.