Integrated voice communications system for personal protective equipment (PPE) for safe and seamless communication in harsh working environments

用于个人防护装备 (PPE) 的集成语音通信系统，可在恶劣的工作环境中实现安全、无缝的通信

• 批准号: 104402
• 金额: $ 21.88万
• 依托单位: NOTO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104402
• 关键词: Integrated; voice; communications; system; personal

NOTO Technologies Limited "NOTO", trading under the name of Mobilus Labs, is a business that is focused on developing products that enable people to talk to each other regardless of their setting. NOTO's ambition is to create personal communicator or "wearable walkie talkie" style product that can be integrated into clothing and/or equipment to provide seamless voice communication. NOTO's first product, outside the scope of this project, is the OCTOtalk system that is built into diving/snorkelling mask and enables divers and snorkelers to talk underwater and share their experiences in real-time. A critical aspect of NOTO's technology is to carefully design the speaker and microphone and electronics to enable two people to have a clear conversation regardless of the noisy or unusual sounds in their immediate vicinity.NOTO's objective, and focus of this project, is to translate their technology from the above aquatic application into system that can be used to integrate voice communications into the clothing used by people working in industrial environments, commonly referred to as personal protective equipment or PPE. NOTO's vision proved a voice communicator, built into a hard hat, that will enable two construction workers to have a normal conversation while operating noisy machinery (i.e. jackhammer). To make his product possible, the research and development team have set a technical objective of enabling two workers, separated by at least 200 metres, to conduct a normal conversation while stood next to a noisy pieced of machinery. If this is possible, this project enables NOTO to launch their technology into a market that it worth $20 billion globally.

诺托技术有限公司“诺托”，以Mobilus Labs的名义进行交易，是一家专注于开发产品的企业，这些产品使人们能够在任何环境下相互交谈。诺托的目标是创造个人通信器或“可穿戴对讲机”风格的产品，其可以集成到衣服和/或设备中以提供无缝语音通信。诺托的第一个产品，在这个项目的范围之外，是OCTOTalk系统，内置在潜水/浮潜面具，使潜水员和浮潜者能够在水下交谈，并实时分享他们的经验。诺托技术的一个关键方面是精心设计扬声器、麦克风和电子设备，使两个人能够在附近有嘈杂或不寻常的声音的情况下进行清晰的对话。诺托的目标，也是这个项目的重点，是将他们的技术从上述水生应用转化为系统，该系统可用于将语音通信集成到工作人员使用的服装中。工业环境，通常称为个人防护设备或PPE。诺托的设想被证明是一种语音通信器，内置在安全帽中，使两名建筑工人在操作嘈杂的机械（即手提钻）时能够进行正常的对话。为了使他的产品成为可能，研发团队设定了一个技术目标，即让两名相隔至少200米的工人站在一台嘈杂的机器旁边进行正常的对话。如果这是可能的，这个项目使诺托能够将他们的技术推向全球价值200亿美元的市场。