The new blue ocean of in-vehicle health: how Nanochap EPC001 chip can reshape the health ecology of intelligent travel?

In the smart car from “travel tools” to “the third living space” leap today, in-vehicle health monitoring is becoming a key track for car companies to differentiate competition. According to the “2023 Global In-vehicle Health Market Report” predicts that by 2030, the penetration rate of smart cars with health monitoring function will exceed 65%, and the core driving force of this change is the biosensing technology represented by Nanochap vital signs parameter detection chip EPC001.

In-vehicle Health: Evolution from Concept to Demand

Over the past decade, automotive intelligence has focused on areas such as autonomous driving and intelligent cockpits, but with the escalation of users' demand for health management, health monitoring in in-vehicle scenarios is experiencing explosive growth:

 Safety Hazard: over 30% of car accidents in China are caused by fatigue driving and sudden illness every year;

 Immediate health needs: 65% of long-distance drivers suffer from cervical fatigue and 40% have blood pressure fluctuations;

 Policy push: the European Union New Car Safety Assessment Program (Euro NCAP) plans to incorporate driver health monitoring into the safety rating system in 2025.

Against this background, the limitations of traditional in-vehicle health solutions (e.g., heart rate bracelet linkage) are highlighted: low data accuracy, single function, and inability to deeply link with vehicle systems. The birth of Nanochap EPC001 chip is to solve this industry pain point.

EPC001 chip: the “all-around heart” of vehicle health monitoring.

Nanochap's vital signs detection chip, EPC001, integrates high-precision sensors and advanced algorithms to monitor the human body's heart rate, oxygen saturation, body temperature, respiratory rate and other key vital signs in real time under the premise of non-invasive. Its unique low-power design ensures stable operation over long periods of time. Meanwhile, its compact size and ease of integration allow the EPC001 to be seamlessly integrated into a wide range of in-vehicle devices, providing users with instant and accurate health data monitoring services.

- High integration: EPC001 chip integrates a high-precision analog front-end, 64MHz RISC-V microcontroller, ECG/PPG feature extraction function and 24bit high-precision ADC, realizing efficient integration of multi-parameter monitoring.

- High-precision detection: The chip is equipped with an ultra-low-noise programmable amplifier and a 24bit high-precision ADC to ensure that bioelectric signals (such as EEG/ECG/EMG) can be accurately converted to digital signals, guaranteeing the accuracy of measurement results.

- Low Power Consumption: EPC001 supports various low power consumption modes such as sleep mode, shutdown mode, standby mode, etc., which ensures stable operation for a long time.

- Powerful anti-interference performance: In complex environments, EPC001 can effectively shield external interference and provide more reliable measurement results.

Landing scenarios: building a closed loop of health guarding for the whole link

 Driving safety: EPC001 chips are embedded into the driver's seat or steering wheel to collect real-time physiological data of the driver through contact monitoring technology.

 Family Travel: The EPC001 chip is embedded in the rear seat of the vehicle, which can realize real-time monitoring of heart rate, blood pressure and other physiological indicators of the elderly and children.

 Personalized Health Management: The EPC001 chip's versatile peripheral interfaces allow the Soc to be expanded with multiple different sensors for long-term monitoring of the user's vital signs.

In the wave of smart cars competing for arithmetic power, screens, and autonomous driving, the Nanochap EPC001 chip gives another answer: true technological care should start with a reverence for human vital signs. When the vehicle is no longer just a cold and hard machine, but can sense breathing, heartbeat, and even predict the health risks of the “intelligent life form”.