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Risk Awareness Enhancement Systems For Hazmat Transportation: Prototyping And Technology Evaluation, Jian Xue, Katherine Linville, Yu Li, Pranav Nitin Godse, Suzanna Long, Ruwen Qin

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

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 …