Bodytrak: preventing health incidents in hazardous industrial environments

对于在温暖气候和/或穿着防护服的工业工人来说，热应激（HS）是一个主要问题。每位员工每年的相关费用为504英镑，住院费用超过4万英镑，致命事故费用为35万英镑（美国）。有证据表明，事故报告严重不足，一些劳动力中有低于85%的人表现出HS症状，导致生产力下降。此外，有450万人受伤，1.05亿个生产力损失与疲劳有关。Inova开发了Bodytrak(r)，这是一款获得“NSC最佳展示”奖的监测系统，用于实时获取生命体征（VS），并进行干预以防止健康事故。从一个小型的入耳式设备，核心体温（CBT）和心率（HR）被持续测量，并通过蜂窝/WiFi/BLE实时传输到Bodytrak云平台，生命体征/警报显示在仪表板上。该项目得到了InnovateUK 4笔赠款（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标准来开发MVP，使其更具可扩展性，以便在危险环境中进行开发。项目产出将是预生产原型和部署就绪平台，以进行广泛的可靠性/认证/客户现场测试。到2020年，全球可寻址市场规模为114.9亿英镑（英国为4.69亿英镑），增长率为10-42%，可服务市场规模为1.87亿英镑。新功能将快速扩展，提供1191%的投资回报率。

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%.