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BLACKLINE GETS CONNECTED WITH GAS DETECTION
LONE WORKER TECH G7 is the first employee safety monitoring system with total detection capability, allowing industrial employees to work virtually anywhere with confidence. The device warns live monitoring personnel of safety incidents from falls and missed check- ins to environmental exposure risks to both toxic and explosive gases. G7 comprises wireless communications and location technology, to empower real-time emergency response and evacuation management.
Eric Clark, a member of the Area Safety Chairmen Committee for Ashland, in Kentucky, said: “Blackline Safety is looking at the whole environment – hazards, gas concentrations, the exact location of a
KYOCERA OPTICAL BLOOD-FLOW SENSOR IS AMONG WORLD’S SMALLEST FOR WEARABLE
DEVICES Kyocera Corporation has developed a small optical blood-flow sensor, which measures the volume of blood flow in subcutaneous tissue. With the sensor, Kyocera is researching a variety of mobile health (mHealth) applications, such as monitoring stress levels or preventing dehydration, heatstroke and altitude sickness by studying trends or changes in blood-flow volume as alerts for these conditions and developing algorithms for detection.
Leveraging Kyocera’s expertise in miniaturization, the sensor — only 1mm high, 1.6mm long and 3.2mm wide — is designed for use in small devices such as mobile phones and wearable devices.
The company will offer sensor module samples starting April 2017,
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and aims to commercialise the technology as a device by March 2018.
The wearable device market has expanded substantially in recent years, focused primarily on health and fitness. New mHealth applications are being developed for a wide range of healthcare applications including chronic diseases, eldercare and wellness. Global shipments of healthcare wearables are expected to rise from 2.5million units in 2016 to 97.6 million units in 2021. Kyocera, which provides a wide range of components for smartphones and wearables, has been developing slimmer, smaller products to support higher functionality in more compact devices.
man down, and you can talk to him on the G7 speakerphone. It saves a lot of time – the quicker you can get to that person in a dangerous situation the better chance they have of surviving.”
G7 works right out of the box to automatically detect when someone is not moving, either from a fall, accident or health incident so that help can be immediately deployed to the employee and empowers evacuations with mass notifications, whilst accounting for the location of every employee through to muster points.
The tech also supports customisation using interchangeable gas sensor cartridges with a choice of single or multiple gases.
Fran Majcher, caregiver and wife of Mark Majcher from Melbourne, Florida added: “If my husband had the emergency communication system from Blackline Safety when he experienced a massive stroke while on assignment in a foreign country, the outcome would have
allowed for immediate medical intervention, and could have prevented life-long disabilities.”
Optional two-way voice communication enables monitoring personnel to speak directly with the employee through a built-in, industrial-grade speakerphone. G7 uses a combination of assisted- GPS and proprietary indoor location technology to display a fallen or injured employee’s exact location on an interactive map, enabling monitoring personnel to direct the nearest responders to the right location.
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The company developed this sensor as an integrated module, incorporating the laser diode and photodiode into a single ceramic package, based on its established expertise in miniaturisation technologies.
Devices equipped with this new sensor will be able to measure blood- flow volume in subcutaneous tissue by placing the device in contact with an ear, finger or forehead. When light is reflected on blood within a blood vessel, the frequency of light varies — called a frequency or Doppler shift according to the blood-flow velocity.
The new sensor utilizes the relative shift in frequency (which increases as blood flow accelerates) and the strength of the reflected light (which grows stronger when reflected off a greater volume of red blood cells) to measure blood-flow volume.
Featuring a high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), small size and low power consumption (output: 0.5mW), the sensor can be easily integrated into a smartphone or wearable device for mHealth applications.
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