Industrial device to personal protective equipment alert delivery

An article of personal protective equipment (PPE) associated with a worker, the article of PPE comprising:

• a user interface configured to receive a user input from the worker;
• a communication module communicatively coupled to the user interface, the communication module configured to:
• receive an event message wirelessly broadcasted from a first computing device that is communicatively coupled to an industrial controller device, wherein the industrial controller device is configured to control an industrial device, wherein the event message is associated with an industrial controller event that corresponds to an abnormality associated with at least one of a temperature, an output rate, a vibration, a sound emission, a component speed, an operating rate, an air hazard level, a sound hazard level, or a radiation level associated with an operation of the industrial device, wherein the event message solicits an action from the worker, and wherein the event message includes (i) severity information associated with the industrial controller event;
• and (ii) a worker group identifier associated with a work zone that includes a region encompassed by a defined boundary that includes a location of the industrial device;
• and
• send, based at least in part on the event message and the user input, a response to the first computing device, wherein the first computing device, in response to receiving the response, performs at least one operation associated with the industrial controller device;
• and
• a processing module communicatively coupled to the communication module and the user interface, the processing module configured to:
• generate an output for the worker associated with the article of PPE in response to receiving the event message, wherein one or more characteristics of the output are based on the severity information associated with the industrial controller event;
• and
• detect the user input on the user interface from the worker in response to the output.

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a second computing device communicatively coupled to an article of personal protective equipment (PPE), an event message wirelessly broadcasted from a first computing device that is communicatively coupled to an industrial controller device, wherein the industrial controller device is configured to control an industrial device, wherein the event message is associated with an industrial controller event that corresponds to an abnormality associated with at least one of a temperature, an output rate, a vibration, a sound emission, a component speed, an operating rate, an air hazard level, a sound hazard level, or a radiation level associated with an operation of the industrial device, wherein the event message solicits an action from a worker associated with the article of PPE, and wherein the event message includes (i) severity information associated with the industrial controller event;
• and (ii) a worker group identifier associated with a work zone that includes a region encompassed by a defined boundary that includes a location of the industrial device;
• generating, by the second computing device, an output for the worker associated with the article of PPE that solicits the action from the worker, wherein one or more characteristics of the output are based on the severity information associated with the industrial controller event;
• detecting, by the second computing device, a user input associated with the article of PPE;
• and
• sending, by the second computing device, based at least in part on the event message and the user input, a response to the first computing device, wherein the first computing device, in response to receiving the response, stop operation of the industrial controller device.