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Smart Eye Announces Pre-Integrated Driver and Occupant Monitoring on Renesas' R-Car Gen 5 Platform
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN / ACCESS Newswire / January 6, 2026 / Smart Eye (STO:SEYE)(OTC PINK:SMTEF)(FRA:SE9) - The integration brings ASIL-grade in-cabin sensing to Renesas' multi-domain compute, enabling faster launches and simpler system design for software-defined ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN / ACCESS Newswire / January 6, 2026 / Smart Eye (STO:SEYE)(OTC PINK:SMTEF)(FRA:SE9) - The integration brings ASIL-grade in-cabin sensing to Renesas' multi-domain compute, enabling faster launches and simpler system design for software-defined vehicles.","length":275,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Smart Eye, the global leader in Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS) and Interior Sensing AI, today announced expanded support for centralized automotive compute platforms, with its production-proven driver and occupant monitoring software now available pre-integrated on Renesas' new R-Car X5H, the flagship system-on-chip (SoC) of the R-Car Gen 5 family.","length":355,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"This pre-integration enables Smart Eye's safety-critical software to operate alongside infotainment and other high-performance workloads on a single compute unit, supporting the shift toward centralized architectures in software-defined vehicles.","length":250,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The R-Car X5H is built to host mixed-criticality workloads, enabling Smart Eye's ASIL-B-compliant driver and occupant monitoring to operate in a protected execution environment while ADAS and L2+ functions run alongside infotainment, visualization, and AI applications. This architecture reduces the number of electronic control units required in a vehicle and supports faster program launches with lower system cost.","length":421,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"As part of this integration, Smart Eye's software is included in the Renesas RoX Whitebox SDK, giving OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers immediate access to a ready-to-run in-cabin sensing stack during early platform evaluation. With pre-validated camera support and a lightweight compute footprint, Smart Eye's software can be activated out of the box with minimal setup, eliminating lengthy integration cycles and accelerating time-to-market for safety-critical features.","length":472,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""OEMs are moving rapidly toward centralized compute, and Renesas' R-Car Gen 5 platform shows how safety and infotainment domains can coexist without compromise," said Detlef Wilke, Vice President Innovations & Strategic Partnerships at Smart Eye. "Pre-integration enables OEMs to deploy driver ...