Abstract
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have contributed to advances in Occupational Health and Safety, improving the security of workers. The use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) based on ICTs reduces the risk of accidents in the workplace, thanks to the capacity of the equipment to make decisions on the basis of environmental factors. Paradigms such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) make it possible to generate PPE models feasibly and create devices with more advanced characteristics such as monitoring, sensing the environment and risk detection between others. The working environment is monitored continuously by these models and they notify the employees and their supervisors of any anomalies and threats. This paper presents a smart helmet prototype that monitors the conditions in the workers’ environment and performs a near real-time evaluation of risks. The data collected by sensors is sent to an AI-driven platform for analysis. The training dataset consisted of 11,755 samples and 12 different scenarios. As part of this research, a comparative study of the state-of-the-art models of supervised learning is carried out. Moreover, the use of a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (ConvNet/CNN) is proposed for the detection of possible occupational risks. The data are processed to make them suitable for the CNN and the results are compared against a Static Neural Network (NN), Naive Bayes Classifier (NB) and Support Vector Machine (SVM), where the CNN had an accuracy of 92.05% in cross-validation.
Highlights
Industrial security is achieved when adequate measures and procedures are applied to obtain access to, handle or generate classified information during the execution of a classified contract or program
In 2015, machine learning approaches including k-nearest neighbor (k-Neural Network (NN)), a rules-based classifier (JRip), and random forest, were investigated by Esrafil Jedari et al [54] to estimate the indoor location of a user or an object using RSSI based fingerprinting method
This section compares the different algorithms used in the state of the art to solve problems similar or related to the one being addressed here [61–64], these models have been accepted for real world problems due to their dataset results with data unbalance and saturation issues, this comparison will be performed with the same amount of data and on an objective quantitative basis
Summary
Industrial security is achieved when adequate measures and procedures are applied to obtain access to, handle or generate classified information during the execution of a classified contract or program. The objective of the proposed device is to improve occupational health and safety (OHS); increasing employee performance by reducing the probability of illness, injury, absence or death [12]. Another objective is to contribute to the third wave, as proposed by Niu et al [13,14], through the implementation of intelligent systems for early risk detection in the working environment. Different studies have been conducted in creation of devices for occupational safety and health (OSH), which indicate the need to implement increasingly innovative solutions for workers in high-risk areas.
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