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Real-Time Drowsiness Detection Using Smartwatch Sensor Data and Machine Learning.
Rel. Massimo Violante, Luigi Pugliese. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Mechatronic Engineering, 2025
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Abstract
Driver drowsiness is a leading and highly preventable cause of road accidents worldwide. This thesis therefore asks: Can smartwatch data accurately classify four distinct drowsiness levels with at least 90% accuracy in realistic driving conditions? Can we use this information to detect and prevent driver drowsiness? To investigate this topic, we analyze a dataset composed of 169,466 samples recorded with commercial smartwatch sensors. Each measurement combines Heart Rate (HR), Heart Rate Variability (HRV), and Respiration Rate (RR) with a synchronised arousal label that is discretised, via equal-width binning, into four classes spanning from full alertness to pronounced drowsiness. Our principal methodological innovation is a lightweight real-time processing system that streams incoming data through a sliding window, performs real-time feature scaling, and feeds the resulting features directly to the classifier.
This arrangement eliminates the need for batch processing and allows continuous inference on resource constrained embedded hardware
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