Health & safety continued…

Fitted to tools and equipment – gathering and transmitting data

In our current research programme, NEMO devices have been encoded with both descriptions of work activities and details of Health & Safety regulations. With sensors fitted to tools or equipment, mobile wireless technology is used to alert operators to the threat of excessive exposure to vibration, and to feed back vital real-time information to a central source, detailing the work being carried out by the tools or equipment.

A wide range of additional applications

NEMO can also be used for a wide range of other purposes such as tool use, asset tracking and storage protocol compliance. NEMO was recently successfully demonstrated at Sweden’s MobiSYs, one of the world’s premier research events covering mobile and wireless applications. The NEMO Project is now developing customised hardware and software for different applications, and is also studying the impact of this technology on workers and organisations. In addition, usability experts are helping to ensure that NEMO devices are designed for simplicity and ease of use.

The NEMO Project is a collaborative venture with: the Departments of Computing, Management and Psychology at Lancaster University; Carillion; BP; Agilent Technologies. For further details, see http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/nemo.