Bodytrak: preventing health incidents in hazardous industrial environments

Bodytrak：预防危险工业环境中的健康事故

• 批准号: 10035780
• 金额: $ 28.57万
• 依托单位: INOVA DESIGN SOLUTIONS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10035780
• 关键词: Bodytrak; preventing; health; incidents; hazardous

Heat stress (HS) is a major issue for industrial workers operating in warm climates and/or wearing protective clothing. Associated costs are £504 per worker annually, with hospitalisation costs £40,000+ and fatal incidents £350,000 (US). Evidence suggests incidents are vastly under-reported with <85% of some workforces exhibiting symptoms of HS, resulting in reduced productivity. In addition, 4.5m injuries and 105m lost productivity days are associated with fatigue.Inova has developed Bodytrak(r), an 'NSC Best-in-Show' award-winning monitoring system used to acquire vital signs (VS) in real-time and enable intervention to prevent health incidents. From a small in-ear device, core body temperature (CBT) and heart rate (HR) are continuously measured and transmitted in real-time via cellular/WiFi/BLE to the Bodytrak cloud platform where vital signs/alerts are displayed on a dashboard. This has been supported by 4 InnovateUK grants (£560k) and is currently being launched.Inova will develop this MVP to be more scalable by making the system ATEX/IECEx compliant for exploitation into hazardous environments. The project outputs will be pre-production prototypes and a deployment-ready platform to carry out extensive reliability/certification/customer in-field testing.The addressable market represents £11.49Bn globally (£469m UK) (2020), with growth rate 10-42%, and serviceable market £187m. The new capability will rapidly scale to provide an ROI of 1,191%.

对于在温暖气候下工作和/或穿着防护服的产业工人来说，热应激 (HS) 是一个主要问题。每名工人每年的相关费用为 504 英镑，其中住院费用超过 40,000 英镑，死亡事故费用为 350,000 英镑（美国）。有证据表明，事故报告严重不足，部分员工中有 <85% 出现热射病症状，导致生产力下降。此外，450 万次受伤和 1.05 亿天生产力损失与疲劳有关。Inova 开发了 Bodytrak(r)，这是一种荣获“NSC 最佳展示”奖的监测系统，用于实时获取生命体征 (VS) 并进行干预以预防健康事故。通过小型入耳式设备，可以连续测量核心体温 (CBT) 和心率 (HR)，并通过蜂窝/WiFi/BLE 实时传输到 Bodytrak 云平台，在仪表板上显示生命体征/警报。该项目得到了 4 项 InnovateUK 拨款（56 万英镑）的支持，目前正在启动中。Inova 将通过使系统符合 ATEX/IECEx 标准，以便在危险环境中使用，来开发该 MVP，使其更具可扩展性。该项目的输出将是预生产原型和可部署的平台，以进行广泛的可靠性/认证/客户现场测试。全球潜在市场价值 114.9 亿英镑（英国 4.69 亿英镑）（2020 年），增长率为 10-42%，可服务市场为 1.87 亿英镑。新功能将快速扩展，以提供 1,191% 的投资回报率。