Toyota Connected

Designing a life-saving automotive monitoring system

Project Context

Toyota Connected, a collaboration between Microsoft and Toyota, develops intelligent mobility solutions. In 2022, they pioneered Cabin Awareness, an innovative safety system using millimeter-wave radar to detect living beings in vehicles. Originally designed to prevent hot-car tragedies, the technology evolved to monitor passenger safety in autonomous vehicles by detecting precise occupant positions and vital signs.

Services

iOS Development

Timeline

8 weeks

Team

1 iOS developer

Key Technology

Swift

Industry

Automotive

Project Opportunity

Build and launch an iPad dashboard visualization system for Toyota's Cabin Awareness platform, enabling real-time monitoring of vehicle occupants through advanced radar sensors – all before the upcoming Sienna launch in 8 weeks.

Real-time visualization

Our SwiftUI animations translate complex radar data into an intuitive, real-time dashboard that clearly communicates occupant positions, movements, and vital signs to safety monitors.

Remote testing complexity

COVID restrictions and a tight timeline prevented travel to access vehicles and hardware. Our remote testing framework uses screen recordings and telemetry logs, enabling thorough testing and debugging without physical access to the system.

Outcomes

Our visualization system revolutionized passenger safety monitoring in autonomous vehicles, earning adoption from major industry partners including May Mobility, Aurora, and Waymo.

3

major autonomous vehicle companies adopted the system

100%

detection rate for occupants under blankets

<10ms

latency in vital sign monitoring

Press