SAFE: Smart helmet for advanced factory environment

Abstract

Safety is a leading theme in industrial applications such as constructions sites and production chains. Several solutions are already in use to protect workers from structural failures or traumatic events. These work instruments have proven their effectiveness, lowering the potentially hurtful, if not fatal, consequences of accidents on workplaces. In this context, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) paradigm can boost the development of smart wearable systems that do not impede movements and/or operations. This work proposes Smart helmet for Advanced Factory Environment (SAFE), an autonomous and integrated wearable IIoT device. With the help of integrated sensors, SAFE is able to perform continuous monitoring activities of the worker and to promptly send alerts in case of alarms and/or accidents.

Trends in Smart Helmets With Multimodal Sensing for Health and Safety: Scoping Review

“…There have been attempts to quantify worker fatigue using electroencephalography (EEG) signals [ 13 , 34 ], and to use temperature monitoring to manage overheating [ 14 , 43 , 47 ]. These helmets have integrated sensors for monitoring body temperature [ 14 , 15 , 39 , 40 , 42 , 43 , 47 , 52 , 54 , 57 - 60 ], heart rate [ 14 , 40 , 42 , 43 , 57 , 58 ], blood pressure [ 39 , 47 ], electrocardiogram (ECG) [ 59 , 60 , 63 ], and EEG [ 13 , 37 , 59 , 60 , 63 ] signals.…”

“…Figure 4 shows the distribution for the 57 selected articles. The numbers of articles that presented smart helmet prototypes for industry, sport, first responder, and health tracking applications were 18 (53%) [13][14][15][16][17][18][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47], 7 (21%) [48][49][50][51][52][53][54], 4 (12%) [55][56][57][58], and 5 (15%) [59][60][61][62][63], respectively. The numbers of articles that included module simulations instead of prototypes for industry, sport, and health tracking applications were 5 (22%) [64][65][66][67][68], 16 (70%) [69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76]…”

“…The IMU sensor and accelerometer were adopted to detect sudden changes in head position or acceleration in a certain direction [13][14][15][16]18,37,44,46,55,57,59]. For health monitoring, various physiological sensors such as temperature [14,15,39,40,42,43,47,52,54,[57][58][59][60], heart rate [14,40,42,43,57,58], humidity sensors [15,38,42,54], and alcohol sensor [49,51,69,[76][77][78]82] were used for continuous monitoring. That is, specific sensors were used to obtain certain features of smart helmets.…”

“…Most of these studies have been based in environments in which wearing a helmet is mandatory or suggested, as in occupational health and safety applications, which are widely studied, as shown in Figure 4. Smart helmets can be potentially used in construction [13,17,18,37,39,40,65,66], coal mining [36,38,42,64,68], motorcycle [48][49][50][51][52][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78]80,[82][83][84], and bicycle riding [54,79], police [56] and firefighting [55,57,58], and health tracking [59][60][61][62][63]85,86] applications. Among the 57 considered articles, there were 4 major domains for smart helmets: ARS, PRS, ERS, and REA, as shown in Figure 5.…”

A Smart Helmet-Based PLS-BPNN Error Compensation Model for Infrared Body Temperature Measurement of Construction Workers during COVID-19

“…In recent years, smart helmets used by construction workers have also emerged. Altamura [9] developed a smart helmet named SAFE that can be applied to construction sites. The smart helmet is equipped with a temperature sensor, heart rate sensor, and smoke detector, which can monitor the wearer's physical condition and surrounding environment in real time and transmit data to the server through Wi-Fi.…”