Bodytrak: preventing health incidents in hazardous industrial environments

热应激（HS）是在温暖气候下操作和/或穿着防护服的工业工人的主要问题。相关费用为每位工人每年504英镑，住院费用为4万英镑以上，致命事故为35万英镑（美国）。有证据表明，事故被大大低估，<85%的劳动力表现出HS症状，导致生产力下降。此外，450万人受伤和1.05亿个工作日的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，用于实时采集生命体征（VS），并进行干预以防止健康事故。从一个小型入耳式设备，核心体温（CBT）和心率（HR）被连续测量，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。这已经得到了4个InnovateUK赠款（£ 560 k）的支持，目前正在启动。Inova将通过使系统符合ATEX/IECEx标准，使该MVP更具可扩展性，以便在危险环境中使用。该项目的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。可寻址市场代表全球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，提供1，191%的ROI。

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%.