Methods and Systems for Controlling Operation of Equipment Based on Biometric Data
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsGerald Pollard, James Lynn
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Abstract
Example methods and systems for controlling operation of equipment are described. An example method for pausing operation of one or more of electrical and hydraulic systems of an equipment includes receiving, at a computing device having one or more processors, biometric data from a wearable biometric interface of a wearer, and based on the biometric data being outside of a range of baseline data, the computing device controlling operation of a power unit coupled to the equipment to pause movement of one or more components of the one or more of electrical and hydraulic systems of the equipment.
Claims20
A method for pausing operation of one or more of electrical and hydraulic systems of an equipment, wherein a power unit is coupled to the equipment for enabling movement of one or more components of the one or more of electrical and hydraulic systems of the equipment, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a computing device having one or more processors, biometric data from a wearable biometric interface of a wearer;
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- based on the biometric data being outside of a range of baseline data, the computing device controlling operation of the power unit to pause movement of the one or more components of the one or more of electrical and hydraulic systems of the equipment.
A system comprising:
- a wearable biometric interface for sensing biometric data of a wearer;
- a power unit coupled to equipment for enabling movement of one or more components of the equipment;
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- a computing device having one or more processors, the computing device in communication with the power unit, wherein the computing device receives the biometric data from the wearable biometric interface and controls operation of the power unit, based on the biometric data, for operating one or more of electrical and hydraulic systems of the equipment, wherein the computing device controls operation of the power unit to pause movement of the one or more components of the equipment based on the biometric data being outside of a range of baseline data.
A system comprising:
- a wearable biometric interface having a plurality of biometric sensors for sensing different biometric data of a wearer and one or more environmental sensors for sensing one or more characteristics of an environment of the wearable biometric interface;
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- a computing device, having one or more processors, being in communication with a power unit that is coupled to an equipment for enabling movement of one or more components of the equipment, wherein the computing device receives the biometric data and the one or more characteristics of the environment from the wearable biometric interface and controls operation of the power unit to pause movement of the one or more components of the equipment based on a combination of outputs of (i) the plurality of biometric sensors being outside of a range of baseline data and (ii) the one or more environmental sensors being outside of a range of normal operating conditions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.