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Royal Beuk strategic agreement
Royal Beuk strategic agreement.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 0776V Seeing Machines Limited 10 December 2013 \n\nDriver Fatigue Detection Arrives to Safeguard Europe's Coach Passengers\nSeeing Machines teams with Royal Beuk to deliver Eye Tracking Systems for Coach Drivers\n \nCanberra, Australia, 10 December 2013- Seeing Machines, (AIM: SEE), has signed a strategic agreement with Royal Beuk, a leading European coach fleet operator, for the deployment of automated Fatigue Monitoring Systems to ensure driver alertness and safeguard coach passengers. The installation of the Fatigue Monitoring Systems will be the first time that coach passenger safety has been protected by automated detection of driver fatigue and distraction, and is being put in place to eliminate the risk of catastrophic coach crashes that have led to large numbers of fatalities. \nThe agreement and partnership with Royal Beuk builds further on Seeing Machines' success in transportation markets. The company announced in May a strategic agreement with Caterpillar Inc. that has resulted in the current worldwide roll out of its Fatigue Monitoring Systems through Caterpillar authorised dealers. In August Seeing Machines announced that 110 BHP Billiton mining trucks in Australian mines would be equipped with the eye-tracking technology. \nUnder the agreement Royal Beuk will install Seeing Machines' Fatigue Monitoring Systems in its own fleet of coaches and in coaches and trucks of partner companies. An initial 20 vehicles, selected by Royal Beuk, will be equipped with the Fatigue Monitoring Systems, with plans by Royal Beuk to expand the use of the technology across its entire fleet of 80 coaches upon successful completion of the nine-month evaluation. The results of the evaluation will be used for the further development and enhancement of the Fatigue Monitoring System for use by coaches and trucks, and in time, cars. Royal Beuk will then also act as lead European distributor of the systems for coach and truck fleets across Europe. Initial vehicles expected to be selected to trial the Fatigue Monitoring Systems will include the long-distance coaches used for journeys within Europe and trucks transporting dangerous chemicals. \n\"Although coach transportation is statistically proven to be one of the safest ways of travelling, there is always a risk,\" says Marc Beuk, CEO...