International     

  Telematics

• Driver Distraction Solutions

• Intellectual Properties

  • Patents

  • Trademarks

  • Copyright

Automotive

• Project Management

• Quality Assurance

• Customer Satisfaction

• Product Walk Around

 ACT-IT Services

• Project management & Process Deployment

• Training

• Management Trouble shooting

• Manufacturing Trouble shooting

• Appraisal photography

   ACT-Works

• Project management & Process Deployment

• Training

• Management Trouble shooting

• Manufacturing Trouble shooting

• Appraisal photography

d Copyright laws.  All visitors and users are expected to comply with these laws.  No exception.  If you disagree LEAVE IMMEDIATELY AND DO NOT MAKE USE OF THIS INFORMATION^{ACT is going through a lot of exiting changes.  We will share the news with all soon.  In the mean while, please excuse our dust..........}

What we do?:  Intellectual Property in the area of Driver Distraction mitigation through smart HMI and adaptive Workload manager.

With the advent of the Information Age and Personal Computing, in the 80's and early 90's, came also an explosion in the need for data to travel and move to where we are. Cellular phone later came to the mix and solved the verbal data issue and notebooks solved the work data issue. Private Networks and later the internet made it even easier to access our data from anywhere even in the car. This led to another explosion: Driver Distraction due to In Vehicle Information Technology.

The automakers wanting to please their customers and try to profit from this revolution sought to use speech recognition as the one size fits all solution. They totally ignored human impulses and their effect on impulses and focused on perfecting complicated and expensive speech recognition to do the job of a simple switch.

In the meanwhile, the Car remained an island all on its own without meaningful integration with the rest of the world and it remained alone with its hardwired contents isolated from the rest of the world. tapes and CD's allowed for the transfer of soft environment such as songs and books on tapes, but that was it.

We saw matters differently, particularly in light of the heavy travel experience. In addition to already experimenting with in car computing for navigation and later computerized driver assistance in 1985-1987 and 1988, we have now added Cellular Phones to the mix and we put together the concept of car specific applications and data just like we have home specific applications (video games) and office specific applications (Excel, Word processing etc.)

Unlike many fine researchers in the Academia, UMTRI, University of Iowa, or big budget government projects, SAVE-IT, Prevent, IVBSS, we do not use theories developed in simulators. We actually developed our solution by following a real life experience. This means video taping ourselves, and others while driving, since 1996 forward, and reviewing the tapes and decipher our actions and that of others. The review often involved passively as well as actively involving others in the review and as asking passively and actively a specific focus group of various ages and genders for their input on certain situation or activity. No wonder that 88% of the people that see the demo think of its as a safe device. One of the most fun observation we made is that of a grand mother usual hands position on the steering wheel which makes it seem that she is attempting to turn the steering wheel. We then observed that the one grandson holds the steering wheel in the same manner but other siblings and cousins hold it differently.

Later research by many of our Academic and Governmental counterparts came to use similar research methods process and come to conclusions that support our findings. Eventually, we found many of our IP emphasized direction being transferred to controls, displays, navigation systems, cell phones, and warnings–used in the car while driving and we hope that our pending patents and documented development track will give us the upper hand when requesting the automotive industry to pay us reasonable royalties.

Our IP emphasis and our PR campaign in Europe and the U.S. was successful in steering the industry away from the Speech Recognition model as a solution to driver distraction to research to better understand Real People Driving Habits, but we believe the industry is still off because they are still ignoring many essential facts and trying to fit all in one solution and laying the responsibility of avoiding temptation at the driver.

To get an idea about the type of IP that’s pending, please see a sample of our solutions. More patents are being prepared almost on a regular basis in the Intelligent Vehicle arena and other related arenas, thus our motto, Guess what we dreamed up today and watch it happen tomorrow.