Smart Eye announces pre-integrated driver and occupant monitoring on Renesas’ R-Car Gen 5 platform
Smart Eye has announced expanded support for centralised automotive compute platforms, with its 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.
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 centralised architectures in software-defined vehicles.
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, visualisation, 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.
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.
