Automotive Engineering Exposition — Green Hills Software, the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security announces that AISIN Corporation (AISIN) has chosen Green Hills Software as the trusted software foundation for its next-generation Driver Monitoring System (DMS) with Alcohol Detection System (DADS). , AISIN is developing their systems with Green Hills products integrated with key collaborators, NXP Semiconductors for the i.MX 9 series applications processor, and Smart Eye’s AI-based driver monitoring systems. First release of the DMS is expected in 2028.
AISIN’s safety system detects signs of driver distraction, drowsiness, or impairment and alerts the driver. In addition, AISIN’s system passively detects alcohol impairment through image-based behavioral analysis of the driver’s condition. Together, these technologies enable a vehicle OEM to reduce human-factor accidents and advance a new standard of proactive, in-vehicle safety.
“AISIN and Green Hills Software are committed to making driving safer,” said Matthew Slager, Vice President Asia-Pacific Operations for Green Hills Software. “AISIN’s selection of the Green Hills INTEGRITY and µ-velOSity real-time operating systems (RTOS) as the foundation of its new driver monitoring systems enables vehicle manufacturers to offer systems that can make appropriate and safe decisions when the driver cannot, and to inform drivers when they have put themselves at risk.”
“Delivering advanced driver monitoring and alcohol impairment detection at production scale with ASIL quality requires more than advanced sensing and AI capabilities in isolation,” said Detlef Wilke, Vice President Innovations & Strategic Partnerships at Smart Eye. “It depends on a tightly integrated software and hardware stack where safety, real-time performance, and system reliability are designed together from the start. AISIN’s collaboration with Green Hills Software, NXP, and Smart Eye reflects the level of integration and cross-functional engineering required to bring advanced in-cabin safety systems into production vehicles.”
“Together with Green Hills Software, NXP is enabling a tightly integrated hardware and software platform that brings AI-driven safety to production scale,” said Jim Bridgwater, Senior Director, MPU Product Marketing, NXP Semiconductors. “The scalability of the i.MX 9 series, combined with our highly integrated approach spanning silicon, AI tools, and system enablement, allows AISIN to rapidly develop optimized systems capable of making real-time decisions that can ultimately help save lives. By leveraging our advanced hardware IP, including the integrated NPU, and pre-integrated software foundations, this collaboration helps accelerate time-to-market for next-generation safety systems, such as driver monitoring systems.”
The AISIN safety system relies on the ISO 26262 ASIL safety-certified RTOSes from Green Hills to run and protect critical components: the INTEGRITY RTOS for in-cabin cameras and software from Smart Eye, and µ-velOSity RTOS for the safety checker. The entire system runs on an SoC from the NXP i.MX 9 series applications processors, utilizing its eIQ Neutron neural processing unit (NPU) for AI processing and the Arm Cortex-A55 and Cortex-M7 cores for general and safety processing.
