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Vital Responder
Monitoring Stress among
First Responder Professionals
Outline
• Where we come from
• Vital Responder project• Wearable technology – Vital Jacket®
• Conclusions
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University of Aveiro
• Established in 1973• Bac. In Telecom. – 1st
graduate course• Modern Campus
(~900.000 m2, 40 buildings)
• ~12 500 students; ~900 Teachers
• Member of ECIU – Euro. Cons. Of Innovative Universities
• www.ua.pt
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Dep. Electronics, Telecom. & Informatics
• ~80 PhDs• Grad., MSc. and Ph.D. in
Electronics, Telecom, Informatics.
• Close related to Industry, (PTelecom, Siemens Comm…)
• Several spin-off companies (MicroI/O, BioDevices…)
• Two interface Institutes: IT and IEETA
• www.det.ua.pt
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IEETA-Resources• Located in the campus of the University of Aveiro
• Human Resources:~100 people; ~50 PhDs, ~50 post-grad students, 5 adm. staff
• Fundamental and applied R&D in Electronics and Telematics (Biomedical has been major target)
• Several Scientific Prizes:
IBM Award (2)EFNM - “Marie Curry Prize”EUREPA – European Epilepsy AccademyLPCE - “Tecnifar Prize”(2)etc. www.ieeta.pt
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IEETA-Organization
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Vital Responder
Monitoring Stress among
First Responder Professionals
… coming back to the theme …
Consortium
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Associate partners
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Stress in Critical Events• Critical events induce fatigue and stress among
first responder professionals such as Fire Fighters, Policemen, Paramedics, etc.
• There are different fatigue and stress factors and even pathologies identified in these professionals.
• It is known that, in average, FR live significantly less than the rest of the population.
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Example: Fire Fighters Heat Stress
• Fire fighters (FF) are subjected to high temperature leading to fatigue and Heat Stress– They are considered under HS when deep
body temperature exceeds 38°C (100.4°F).
• This condition may lead to different heat diseases.
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Heat diseases in FF• Heat stroke
– body's system of temperature regulation fails– Heat stroke is a life threatening medical
emergency (organ failure, nauseas, etc.)– Very difficult to predict its occurrence
• Heat exhaustion– headache, nausea, vertigo, weakness, thirst, and
giddiness.– Many times leads to fainting
• life threatening in many critical and emergency situations
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Heat deseases detection
• Very difficult to diagnose.• Nowadays based only on body and
environment temperature measures.• Inference of stress just from temperature. • No inner physiology of the human body is
used for feedback on reaction to stress and probability of heat stroke or exhaustion.
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Stress measure in humans
• ECG is commonly used to measure stress in human beings
• R-R variability is the main technique used for this purpose
• For this measure to be effective, we need to have a simple and effective way of long-term monitoring (at least one working day) of diagnosis quality ECG.
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Vital Responder Project
Vital Responder Presentation Layer
First Responder 1
First Responder N
Wearable Technology
Sensor Network & RF location
Vital Responder Monitoring Platform
Data Analysis
Building 1
Building N
Terrain
Building info and sensors
Building network
Building Monitoring Platform
Terrain info (GIS) and Sensors
WAN / satellite network
Terrain Monitoring Platform
Other projects on First Responder operationscan integrate through the different platforms
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Vital Responder project
• Objectives: – Develop the Next Generation wearable intelligent
garment for vital signs and other body information monitoring.
– Deploy a novel mobile telematic infrastructure to enable the continuous online monitoring.
• Novel ad-hoc sensor network protocols• New radio-frequency location services (indoor and outdoor)
– Explore post-event analysis for better event detectors
– Explore integration with intelligent building systems to better respond to emergency and critical events
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Wearable “platform”
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GIS integration
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See VJ videos on YouTube !(search – “Vital Jacket”)
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… estão desde já convidados a visitar AVEIRO
• Obrigado!
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