Towards an Automated Safety Suit for Industrial Service

Wearable and mobile computing technologies enable new types of safety-related applications due to augmentation of sensing and computational devices, thus introducing new - non-intrusive interaction styles. Wearable sensor technologies provide the mobile worker with the opportunity to measure information about the environment as well as his own condition. Mobile devices enable accessing, processing, visualizing, alarming, and communicating information without being constrained to a single location. In this paper, we present an automated safety vest that follows an non-intrusive and modular design. It can sense various environmental and health conditions and is controlled by a mobile application running on a smart phone. The modular design of the wearable sensors makes it easy to integrate it with existing safety equipment, such as a high visibility vest.