Safety Monitoring and Warning System for Subway Construction Workers Using Wearable Technology

Title:Safety Monitoring and Warning System for Subway Construction Workers Using Wearable Technology

Volume: 14 Issue: 3

Author(s): Junhua Chen, Dahu Wang*Cunyuan Sun

Affiliation:

• School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, Henan,China

Keywords: Metro construction, safety monitoring, warning system, construction workers, wearable technology, RFID.

Abstract:

Objective: This study focused on the application of wearable technology in the safety monitoring and early warning for subway construction workers.

Methods: With the help of real-time video surveillance and RFID positioning which was applied in the construction has realized the real-time monitoring and early warning of on-site construction to a certain extent, but there are still some problems. Real-time video surveillance technology relies on monitoring equipment, while the location of the equipment is fixed, so it is difficult to meet the full coverage of the construction site. However, wearable technologies can solve this problem, they have outstanding performance in collecting workers’ information, especially physiological state data and positioning data. Meanwhile, wearable technology has no impact on work and is not subject to the inference of dynamic environment.

Results and Conclusion: The first time the system applied to subway construction was a great success. During the construction of the station, the number of occurrences of safety warnings was 43 times, but the number of occurrences of safety accidents was 0, which showed that the safety monitoring and early warning system played a significant role and worked out perfectly.

Cite this article as:

Chen Junhua, Wang Dahu*, Sun Cunyuan, Safety Monitoring and Warning System for Subway Construction Workers Using Wearable Technology, Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications 2021; 14 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2666255813666191127111248