Drowsy Alarm app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Kazuhiro Kobayashi
First release : 25 Feb 2016
App size: 19.2 Mb
“Drowsy Alarm” helps you to stop falling asleep when you are driving and increases your safety.
It uses a frontal camera of a smartphone and detects your face and eyes based on computer vision technology. When you get drowsy and close your eyes for a while, "Drowsy Alarm" wakes you up by an alarm. What only you need to do is to mount your phone in front of you and turn on the app. No additional hardware is required.
According to AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the accidents caused by drowsy driving occur 328 thousand annually, and more than 6 thousand are fatal injuries. Besides, it is said that the number of traffic accidents will increase because the length of time to drive per drivers is increasing, and the drivers are non-professional. However, the most cars dont have expensive, cutting-edge safety technologies.
"Drowsy Alarm" realizes the driver monitoring by a smartphone app. It aims to prevent every drivers drowsy driving and to decrease the number of traffic accidents.