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# 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.
[Video](https://pineworks.co/uploads/clients/images/Toyota/Reduced-Quality.mp4)
## 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
[Toyota Connected ‘Cabin Awareness’ Concept Uses New Tech to Detect Occupants](https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-connected-cabin-awareness-concept-uses-new-tech-to-detect-occupants/) — Toyota Newsroom — May 31, 2022
[Toyota Connected Cabin Awareness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7OtIjREWQo) — Autoblog — May 31, 2022
[Toyota Cabin Awareness Concept Uses High-Tech Radar to Detect Heartbeats](https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/toyota-cabin-awareness-concept-4d-radar-heartbeats/) — CNET — June 01, 2022