PRIAUTO has launched its 1-Year-Old Child Presence Detection (CPD) Dummy – PRD-1YO-CPDA. This surrogate is designed specifically for ASEAN NCAP, incorporating not only breathing simulation but also body temperature control, reflecting the unique requirements of the program.

With the rapid development of intelligent cabin safety, in-cabin vital sign sensing and Child Presence Detection (CPD) evaluation requirements, in-vehicle child detection systems are becoming an important part of global vehicle safety assessment. To support the specific needs of ASEAN NCAP 2026 for child presence detection scenarios and test objects, PRIAUTO has launched the 1-Year-Old Child Presence Detection Dummy PRD-1YO-CPDA, providing OEMs, sensor suppliers, testing organizations, and research institutes with a more realistic, standardized, and repeatable tool for in-cabin child safety validation.

Designed for child presence detection scenarios involving a 1-year-old infant, the product integrates breathing simulation, thermal control, multi-DoF posture simulation and multi-sensor compatibility. It provides a high-fidelity test object for ASEAN NCAP-related testing, intelligent cabin safety development and multi-sensor fusion validation.

The core challenge of child presence detection lies in accurately identifying the presence, vital signs and multi-sensor detectable characteristics of a child in a real vehicle cabin environment. Unlike a conventional static dummy or simplified child model, the PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy is designed around the typical posture, physiological micro-motion, body surface temperature and multi-sensor response characteristics of a 1-year-old infant inside a vehicle cabin.

Developed for ASEAN NCAP 2026-related testing needs, the dummy places particular emphasis on respiratory characteristics, thermal features and detectable dynamic signatures. With a standardized, controllable and repeatable test object, R&D teams and testing organizations can more effectively evaluate the detection capability, recognition stability and system robustness of CPD systems across different sensing technologies.

The PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy provides adjustable breathing simulation, supporting a breathing rate of 10–50 bpm and a breathing amplitude of 1–20 mm. It also supports multiple programmable breathing patterns, including fixed, incremental, random and pause scenarios.

This design enables the dummy to reproduce infant respiratory motion under different states, providing more representative vital-sign micro-motion input for millimeter-wave radar, 4D imaging radar and multi-sensor fusion systems. For radar-based CPD systems, respiration-induced micro-Doppler signatures are important cues for distinguishing real life signs from static objects. Through controllable and repeatable breathing simulation, the PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy helps users more accurately evaluate a system’s ability to detect vital-sign micro-motion.

In addition to breathing simulation, the PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy integrates thermal control. Built-in heating elements simulate infant body surface temperature, providing critical test conditions for infrared, thermal imaging and multi-sensor fusion systems.

Thermal control is one of the key features of this product for ASEAN NCAP-related requirements. It expands CPD testing beyond radar-only detection and enables evaluation of infrared thermal sensing, vision-based sensing and multimodal fusion architectures. For future intelligent cabin safety systems, a single-sensor approach may not be sufficient for all complex scenarios, while multi-sensor fusion will become an increasingly important direction. By synchronizing breathing and thermal characteristics, the PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy provides a more complete validation foundation that is closer to the real state of an infant.

To enhance scenario realism and posture adaptability, the PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy is designed with multiple degrees of freedom, including left-right head rotation, shoulder up-down movement for both arms, and hip up-down movement for both legs.

These motion degrees of freedom help create richer in-cabin test scenarios. The dummy can serve not only as a static presence object, but also as a target capable of representing certain posture variations of a real infant in a child seat, rear seat or other in-cabin positions. For vision systems, millimeter-wave radar, thermal sensing and multi-sensor fusion systems, posture changes can directly affect target recognition, reflection characteristics and detection stability. Therefore, multi-DoF posture capability is highly valuable for CPD system validation.

The PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy is designed for current mainstream and emerging in-cabin sensing technologies. It is compatible with 24 GHz, 60 GHz, and 140 GHz millimeter-wave radar, 4D imaging radar, UWB, 5.8 GHz Wi-Fi, vision-based systems, and thermal-based systems.

This multi-sensor compatibility allows the dummy to be used not only for single-sensor performance validation, but also for the development and evaluation of multimodal solutions such as radar + thermal fusion, radar + vision fusion, UWB + radar fusion and Wi-Fi + vision fusion. As CPD systems evolve from single-point detection toward integrated sensing, high-fidelity targets with multi-dimensional detectable characteristics will become essential infrastructure for intelligent cabin safety validation.

The PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy can be widely used for vehicle-level intelligent cabin safety testing, CPD system development, sensor algorithm validation, NCAP pre-compliance testing, test protocol research and multi-sensor fusion technology development.

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As global attention to in-vehicle child safety continues to increase, CPD testing is moving from basic functional validation toward standardized, systematic and high-confidence evaluation. By integrating breathing simulation, thermal control, multi-DoF posture simulation and multi-sensor compatibility, the PRIAUTO 1-year-old CPD dummy provides a more advanced and complete test object for intelligent cabin child safety validation.

The PRIAUTO 1-year-old Child Presence Detection dummy is designed not only for ASEAN NCAP 2026-related testing needs, but also for the future development of intelligent cabin safety systems. By combining infant body dimensions, physiological micro-motion, thermal characteristics, posture variation and multi-sensor response features, it provides a high-fidelity, controllable and repeatable validation platform for CPD systems.

As intelligent vehicles evolve from transportation tools into intelligent mobile spaces, in-cabin life safety sensing will become an increasingly important evaluation indicator for intelligent cabins. PRIAUTO will continue to develop higher-fidelity, more adaptable, and more standardized test targets and validation tools for child presence detection, occupant sensing, vital sign monitoring, and intelligent cabin safety evaluation, helping the global intelligent vehicle industry build a safer, more reliable, and more trustworthy in-cabin safety system.