TOKYO - Engineers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have developed a car seat that can identify you by the pressure you apply on a seat when sitting down, Japanese daily Nikkei reported.
The report said the group of engineers at the Tokyo public graduate school will seek to market their innovation as a highly reliable anti-theft system through collaboration with automakers in two or three years.
The system works through a sensor attached under the driver's seat to measure pressure at 360 points, the report said. The pressure at these points is shown in an index that runs from 0 to 256.
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According to the report, a trial test was able to distinguish the individuals with about 98 per cent accurary.
According to a document published online, the engineers claimed that car seat pressure identification has a higher accuracy rate and is a less stressful solution for the user, as compared to other authentication systems that use passwords or keys which can be easily duplicated.
The document said that the car pressure identification system won't be affected by factors such as noise, dust or brightness. In the trial test, it also succeeded in identifying the different seating pressure styles of six people.
The technology could also be used to implement a user-recognition system for the office as opposed to logging in on the computer, the document said.
However, the technology's high cost presents a problem for actual commercial use, the group said in the document.
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