Personal protection article system
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsThomas I. Insley, Lawrence J. Ptasienski, Neal A. Rakow, Cristina U. Thomas
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Abstract
The present disclosure is particularly adapted for determining whether the condition of personal protection equipment PPE articles satisfies at least one criterion. A method and system provide at least one predetermined criterion that governs use of the PPE article in a working environment; a PPE article is configured with a smart tag, and a sensing device is provided that is configured to sense data in a working environment related to the predetermined criterion. Acquired data from the sensing device and the smart tag are processed in a data processing system to determine whether the condition of the PPE article satisfies the at least one predetermined criterion.
Claims16
A system comprising:
- a personal protection article configured with a smart tag;
- a computing device comprising one or more computer processors, and a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to:
- receive sensed data, generated by at least one sensing device that is related to a hazard level for a hazard the working environment, a hazard type for the hazard in the working environment, a presence of the hazard in the working environment, or an absence of the hazard in the working environment;
- receive smart tag data using the smart tag associated with the personal protection article, the smart tag data including an identification of the personal protection article;
- store the sensed data sensed by the at least one sensing device and the smart tag data that is from the smart tag, and a timestamp indicative of when the smart tag data was received;
- process the sensed data and at least part of the smart tag data to determine a condition that corresponds to operation of the personal protection article in the working environment in relation to at least one predetermined criterion concerning the operation of the personal protection article in the working environment;
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- perform at least one operation in response to the determination of the condition that corresponds to the operation of the personal protection article in the working environment in relation to at least one predetermined criterion concerning the operation of the personal protection article in the working environment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.