Smart car seat adjusts to your needs
Active Wellness is a smart car seat that responds to your needs real-time. The car seat detects your heartbeat and breathing and can give massages when you’re stressed or wake you up when you’re close to dozing off.
It employs unique sensors to detect the heart rate and breathing rhythm of drivers and/or passengers.
Car seat factory Faurecia developed Active Wellness and presented it at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show.
All data collected by Active Wellness is stored securely within the seating system. In operation, the Active Wellness seat reads the occupant’s heart rhythms and breathing patterns, responding with massage, a warming sensation or cooling to restore a healthy and comfortable condition.
If the occupant has brought a wearable fitness device into the car, the seating system will use data from that device and its own sensors to understand what the individual was doing before entering the car—such as running or working out—and provide appropriate therapies, such as high ventilation to reduce skin temperature, with various heating, cooling and massage patterns.
Faurecia has worked for five years to evolve the Active Wellness seat, partnering with NASA, The Ohio State University, and Hoana, a leading maker of medical devices to develop this first-of-its-kind system. The Faurecia team sought a way to help people feel better after a trip than when they entered the car.
They realized that a solution would need to focus on the individual in real time, rather than a theoretical “average” person. To develop Active Wellness, Faurecia first worked with the Spine Research Institute at The Ohio State University (USA) to develop unique tools to measure comfort in real time, and techniques to alleviate discomfort.
The company said that The Active Wellness system, which could be on the market by 2020, is an industry-changing example of Faurecia’s commitment to its mission of driving wellbeing.
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