Smart Eye AntiSleep is designed and developed to meet the requirements from the automotive industry on cost and size of each unit. The system uses a single standard camera of VGA resolution together with two IR- flash illuminators. The camera and the IR-flashes are mounted in a compact unit but can be placed separately if required. The IR illuminators and filters are tuned to frequencies with minimum interference of outdoor light. This means that the system mainly uses its own illumination, making it highly robust to all natural illumination conditions present in automotive applications.

Smart Eye AntiSleep measures the driver's head position and orientation, gaze direction and eyelid opening, at a rate of 60 Hz. All delivered measurement data have confidence values based on the estimated quality of the measurements. The system detects generic and person-specific facial features and maps them to a generic 3D head model. The head model is then quickly adapted to the driver in real-time. This driver initialisation procedure is fully automatic and invisible to the driver.