Monitoring workers through wearable transceivers for improving work safety

Senyurek, Levent; Hocaoglu, Koksal; Sezer, Burak; Urhan, Oğuzhan

doi:10.1109/wisp.2011.6051699

Cited by 15 publications

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“…Commonly user's smartphones with Android OS are used to develop the HIM interface. Also, the data extracted can be submitted for an infrastructure network in a private or public cloud [27,41,37,36,22,18,16,21]. The difference between the first to second approach is shown in Figure 2.…”

Section: Hardware and Os Architecturesmentioning

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Building Wearables for Geology

Delabrida

D'Angelo

Oliveira

et al. 2016

SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev.

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Wearable devices have emerged in the last years with new applications that provide user convenience. Healthcare, sports, safety are some examples of applications embedded in thousands of devices released in the last years. Wearable operating systems with different focus emerged together with wearable applications in order to make adjustments and optimizations of software and hardware. This paper presents a wearable operating systems discussion and shows the current challenges and wearable operating system influence. We developed a wearable appliance for geology. The wearable contains a Head Mounted Display (HMD) assembled with Google Cardboard API and sensors connected to developments boards. For each system component was used different operating systems according to hardware and software available. The results indicate some trends for wearable operating systems.

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Section: Hardware and Os Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building Wearables for Geology

Delabrida

D'Angelo

Oliveira

et al. 2016

SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev.

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“…WBANs span a wide range of target applications such as the rescue and emergency management in disaster areas [ 10 – 14 ], the monitoring of mobile workforces operating in harsh or unhealthy environments [ 15 – 19 ], the monitoring and tracking for personal healthcare [ 20 , 21 ], and many other applications. This section focuses on safety and life critical applications and describes their main characteristics and requirements.…”

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Surveying Wearable Human Assistive Technology for Life and Safety Critical Applications: Standards, Challenges and Opportunities

Alam

Hamida

2014

Sensors

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In this survey a new application paradigm life and safety for critical operations and missions using wearable Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) technology is introduced. This paradigm has a vast scope of applications, including disaster management, worker safety in harsh environments such as roadside and building workers, mobile health monitoring, ambient assisted living and many more. It is often the case that during the critical operations and the target conditions, the existing infrastructure is either absent, damaged or overcrowded. In this context, it is envisioned that WBANs will enable the quick deployment of ad-hoc/on-the-fly communication networks to help save many lives and ensuring people's safety. However, to understand the applications more deeply and their specific characteristics and requirements, this survey presents a comprehensive study on the applications scenarios, their context and specific requirements. It explores details of the key enabling standards, existing state-of-the-art research studies, and projects to understand their limitations before realizing aforementioned applications. Application-specific challenges and issues are discussed comprehensively from various perspectives and future research and development directions are highlighted as an inspiration for new innovative solutions. To conclude, this survey opens up a good opportunity for companies and research centers to investigate old but still new problems, in the realm of wearable technologies, which are increasingly evolving and getting more and more attention recently.

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“…In [ 3 ], an accelerometer is used to obtain information that indicates whether all work activities are being performed in the right way. Other studies [ 4 , 5 ] show how to detect unusual movements or postures that could damage the health of workers; in [ 6 ], a wearable physiological status monitor is used to analyze relationships that might exist between physical stress and productivity. In [ 7 ], the goal is activity classification and energy consumption estimation, but based on the number of METs (metabolic equivalent tasks), according to the compendium of activities [ 8 ]; therefore, this does not apply to any free activity undertaken.…”

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Real-Time Personalized Monitoring to Estimate Occupational Heat Stress in Ambient Assisted Working

Pancardo

Acosta

Hernández-Nolasco

et al. 2015

Sensors

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Ambient Assisted Working (AAW) is a discipline aiming to provide comfort and safety in the workplace through customization and technology. Workers' comfort may be compromised in many labor situations, including those depending on environmental conditions, like extremely hot weather conduces to heat stress. Occupational heat stress (OHS) happens when a worker is in an uninterrupted physical activity and in a hot environment. OHS can produce strain on the body, which leads to discomfort and eventually to heat illness and even death. Related ISO standards contain methods to estimate OHS and to ensure the safety and health of workers, but they are subjective, impersonal, performed a posteriori and even invasive. This paper focuses on the design and development of real-time personalized monitoring for a more effective and objective estimation of OHS, taking into account the individual user profile, fusing data from environmental and unobtrusive body sensors. Formulas employed in this work were taken from different domains and joined in the method that we propose. It is based on calculations that enable continuous surveillance of physical activity performance in a comfortable and healthy manner. In this proposal, we found that OHS can be estimated by satisfying the following criteria: objective, personalized, in situ, in real time, just in time and in an unobtrusive way. This enables timely notice for workers to make decisions based on objective information to control OHS.

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Monitoring workers through wearable transceivers for improving work safety

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

Building Wearables for Geology

Building Wearables for Geology

Surveying Wearable Human Assistive Technology for Life and Safety Critical Applications: Standards, Challenges and Opportunities

Real-Time Personalized Monitoring to Estimate Occupational Heat Stress in Ambient Assisted Working

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