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Tag: wearables
Safety
Apple Watch will soon send alerts when you need hearing protection on the jobsite
As part of Apple’s new Hearing Health monitoring, the update will bring users a new Noise app that will monitor your environment and track loud noise exposure.
June 4, 2019
Safety
The GuardHat monitors everything you need to know about workers’ safety
GuardHat manufactures a smart hard hat with sensors in it that continuously transmit data to a safety control center, enabling the system to pinpoint each worker’s location to within a foot and detect dangerous conditions. It can also monitor vital signs, take video of the immediate surroundings and detect impacts and sounds such as blasts. […]
December 22, 2017
Roadbuilding
Prototype “smart vest” could greatly reduce highway worker deaths and injuries by talking to traffic
With almost 600 construction workers killed a year in work-zone related accidents, the industry is desperate for some solutions. Researchers at Virginia Tech think they may have an idea that could cut those fatalities in half. Their solution is the InZoneAlert vest, which incorporates radio sensors and GPS tracking that workers wear on or inside the […]
September 4, 2015
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