SmartEye module

The SmartEye module listens for SmartEye ’s own UDP data packets and publishes gaze, head pose, pupillometry, drowsiness and facial-emotion readings into HEAT Capture. SmartEye’s own software sends the data; this module never talks back to it.

Privacy

SmartEye’s own analysis includes facial-emotion estimation (anger, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise, valence, mood) and a drowsiness estimate, alongside the gaze and pupillometry data every other eye tracker in this catalogue publishes. Whatever SmartEye’s software computes and sends, this module publishes unconditionally - there is no setting to exclude the emotion or drowsiness fields while keeping gaze. Treat this the same way you would any other biometric or inferred-state capture: confirm it fits your deployment’s consent and data-handling requirements before enabling it. See Data produced for exactly what is published.

What you need

SmartEye’s own eye-tracking software running and configured to send its UDP output to the workstation running HEAT Capture, on the configured port (default 5003).

Settings

Two settings, under HEAT.SmartEyeModule:

Setting	Type	Default	Effect
`UdpPort`	integer	`5003`	The UDP port this module listens on for SmartEye’s own broadcast.
`SendAtNativeRate`	boolean	`true`	`true`: each SmartEye packet is published immediately as it arrives. `false`: HEAT Capture’s own per-tick poll publishes the most recently received packet instead.

Beyond that, it exposes only the generic settings every HEAT Capture module has (Enabled, Interval, OverrideNodeId/NodeId, Timeout) - see Manage capture modules.

Interface Control Document

See Interface control document for UDP addressing, packet framing and byte order, field IDs, publication timing, validity behavior and privacy boundaries.