en.Wedoany.com Reported - Wedoany News, The highly integrated cabin sensing system jointly developed by Switzerland-based STMicroelectronics and Swedish eye-tracking technology company Tobii has officially entered mass production and secured a nomination order from a European premium automaker. The solution utilizes a single wide-angle camera that fuses visible light and infrared sensing to simultaneously achieve driver monitoring and occupant monitoring on the same hardware platform, providing automakers with an integrated, cost-controllable technology pathway that complies with major global market safety regulations.
The core of this solution lies in the deep integration of Tobii's attention computing algorithms with STMicroelectronics' VD1940 image sensor from its SafeSense platform. The VD1940 features a 5.1-megapixel hybrid pixel design, sensitive to both RGB visible light and infrared light simultaneously. Coupled with a wide field-of-view optical system, it can cover the entire cabin space under both bright daytime and low-light nighttime conditions. Tobii's algorithms process the dual video streams from the same sensor in parallel, consolidating driver monitoring and occupant monitoring from two previously independent hardware sets into a single-camera architecture, simplifying system integration while reducing bill-of-materials costs. Alexandre Balmefrezol, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Imaging Sub-Group at STMicroelectronics, stated in the mass production announcement that through close collaboration, the new generation of cabin sensing technology has met expected targets in reliability, user-friendliness, and large-scale application, and the company is rapidly expanding production capacity to meet market demand.
Previously, this single-camera solution had already accumulated significant certification and mass production advantages due to its adaptability to major global safety regulations. The EU's General Safety Regulation mandates that all new vehicle models be equipped with camera-based driver monitoring systems starting in 2026, and major markets such as China and South Korea have successively introduced similar mandatory standards. Adrian Capata, Senior Vice President of Tobii Autosense, pointed out that the key to the single-camera solution meeting stringent safety standards while unlocking enhanced user experiences lies in the unique balance between imaging quality and cost achieved through the combination of visible light and infrared sensing. To date, Tobii Autosense's cabin sensing solutions have been integrated into over 160 vehicle models, with deployments exceeding 1 million units.
STMicroelectronics' capacity assurance strategy for this initiative is also noteworthy. As a vertically integrated manufacturer, the company completes the full-process design and manufacturing of the VD1940 image sensor in its European fabs. This supply chain layout allows automakers and Tier-1 suppliers to gain geographical supply security when procuring core components for cabin sensing, reducing the impact of long-distance cross-border supply chain fluctuations on production takt times. STMicroelectronics has currently completed mass production preparations for the VD1940 at its European fabs and is in a state ready for delivery to Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs.
From the perspective of market expansion rhythm, Tobii's nominated projects in the automotive business are extending from passenger vehicles to the commercial vehicle sector. On May 6, Tobii announced it had secured a nomination from a European luxury sports car manufacturer renowned for high-performance sports car and racing engineering technology, with mass production scheduled to start in 2026; concurrently, it is migrating an existing DMS nomination project to a new commercial vehicle platform based on Qualcomm's platform, planned for mass production in 2028. The advancement of these orders complements the product matrix formed by the single-camera solution mass-produced in collaboration with STMicroelectronics, covering various deployment scenarios from luxury passenger cars to commercial vehicles, and from single-camera overall cabin sensing to dedicated driver monitoring.
Tobii is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange. Its main business covers eye-tracking and attention computing technologies across multiple fields including behavioral research, healthcare, education and training, gaming, extended reality, and automotive. STMicroelectronics is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and is one of the world's major vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturers, with full-year 2025 revenue of $13.28 billion, possessing a complete product portfolio and European local manufacturing capabilities in the automotive semiconductor sector. Since the two parties first announced their collaboration and initiated mass production in October 2025, the implementation of this new nomination project marks a critical transition for the joint technology solution from single-model demonstration entry to large-scale shipments across multiple customers, platforms, and vehicle models.
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