TY - GEN
T1 - Risk awareness enhancement systems for hazmat transportation
T2 - 2019 International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management and 40th Meeting Celebration: A Systems Approach to Engineering Management Solutions, ASEM 2019
AU - Xue, Jian
AU - Linville, Katherine
AU - Li, Yu
AU - Godse, Pranav Nitin
AU - Long, Suzanna
AU - Qin, Ruwen
AU - Yan, Jihong
AU - Zhao, Lizhong
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © American Society for Engineering Management, 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Workers of hazardous material (hazmat) transportation have a higher chance than other workers to be exposed to various risks in their workplace. Assisting them to safely operate in their workplace in a near real-time manner is in particular need. This paper presents a study of designing, prototyping and developing feedback systems to help increase the risk awareness of workers in the loading and uploading phases of hazmat transportation. The first system was prototyped on an Arduino board, serving as the reference for system development. Then, the second system, named a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon based system, was designed as a smart connected system. It integrated technologies of Bluetooth low energy sensor, mobile smart device, the Cloud, wireless communication, and mobile applications. The smart connected system is more capable than the Arduino based system in providing safety information to workers. A comparison of the respective technologies utilized in the two systems further indicates that the improved capability of the smart connected system is mainly on the dimensions of interactivity, mobility, information richness, and connectivity.
AB - Workers of hazardous material (hazmat) transportation have a higher chance than other workers to be exposed to various risks in their workplace. Assisting them to safely operate in their workplace in a near real-time manner is in particular need. This paper presents a study of designing, prototyping and developing feedback systems to help increase the risk awareness of workers in the loading and uploading phases of hazmat transportation. The first system was prototyped on an Arduino board, serving as the reference for system development. Then, the second system, named a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon based system, was designed as a smart connected system. It integrated technologies of Bluetooth low energy sensor, mobile smart device, the Cloud, wireless communication, and mobile applications. The smart connected system is more capable than the Arduino based system in providing safety information to workers. A comparison of the respective technologies utilized in the two systems further indicates that the improved capability of the smart connected system is mainly on the dimensions of interactivity, mobility, information richness, and connectivity.
KW - Cyber-physical systems
KW - Hazardous material
KW - Safety
KW - Smart connected systems
KW - Transportation workers
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85086287134
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - 2019 International Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Management and 40th Meeting Celebration: A Systems Approach to Engineering Management Solutions, ASEM 2019
BT - 2019 International Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Management and 40th Meeting Celebration
A2 - Schott, E.
A2 - Keathley, H.
A2 - Krejci, C.
PB - American Society for Engineering Management
Y2 - 23 October 2019 through 26 October 2019
ER -