Driving & safety-critical work

You feel fine right up until you don’t.

The dangerous thing about falling asleep at the wheel is that the warning signs are visible in the signal minutes before they are visible to you. Drowsiness is the clearest, fastest state we can read — and the one where reading it early is worth the most.

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A driver at the wheel wearing the Ninug band

What it watches

Four signals, none of which require you to notice anything.

  • ◆Slow rolling eye movementsLarge and unambiguous at the forehead, and one of the earliest indicators that sleep is starting to win
  • ◆Long eye closuresNot blinks — the closures that stretch past a blink and are barely perceived by the person having them
  • ◆Head nods and postural driftFrom motion sensing, and by that point the situation is already serious
  • ◆Time of day and hours awakeBody-clock pressure is predictable. The early hours are dangerous for everyone, all the time

The output is not a score. It is a short-horizon warning: elevated risk, stop within the next twenty minutes.

Who it’s for

Anywhere being tired is a hazard rather than an inconvenience.

Long-distance and night driving

Private drivers on the roads where fatigue crashes actually happen — motorways, straight roads, the small hours, the last hour of a long journey.

Professional and fleet

Freight, coach, rail, mining and haulage operations that already run fatigue risk management programmes and currently manage them with rosters and paperwork.

Clinical night shifts

The people making consequential decisions at 4am, in a profession where admitting tiredness is culturally difficult and the consequences are borne by someone else.

  • ◆The employer sees fit, or not fitA single flag. Nothing underneath it — no brain data, no sleep detail, no stress, no focus scores
  • ◆Nothing outside the shiftWhat you do on your own time is not measured for them, and is never shared
  • ◆Explained before it is wornAnyone required to wear one at work is shown exactly what is shared, in plain language, first

If your employer buys it

This is the easiest way for a company like ours to build surveillance.

Fatigue monitoring at work is a genuine safety need. It is also a brain sensor on an employee, mandated by the person who pays them — which is a serious thing to ask of someone.

So the boundary is built into the product rather than promised in a policy.

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Important

A warning is not a safety system.

Ninug is not a driver-assistance system, it is not certified for automotive safety, and it will not take any action on your behalf.

It does not replace rest breaks, driving-hours rules, or the judgement to not set off in the first place. If you are tired enough that a device has to tell you, the device has already told you late. Treat a warning as a floor, never a licence to keep going until one arrives.

For fleets and operators.

If you run a fleet, a plant or a night-shift operation, fatigue monitoring is a procurement conversation as much as a technical one. We would like to start it early.

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