Augmented Reality to save industrial plant workers from electrocution
UNSW Sydney’s Maker Games hailed an augmented reality system as this year’s winner.
An average of 27 workers dies each year from electrocution, while more than 530 people are hospitalised with electrical injuries.
The Team safAR students responded to the problem by creating a system that uses augmented reality (AR) to provide step-by-step instructions to workers on how to safely isolate machinery.
The software uses AR object recognition and speech recognition.
It is an easy-to-use tool that any construction worker can look at the machinery and instantly get feedback on what they should do in the field.
It uses some small safety glasses that give you a VR/AR kind of display. This allows workers to operate the software hands free while in the field.
Other projects
Other prototypes presented by the Maker Games finalists were:
- An app-controlled system to protect the home against bushfires
- A mask that protects water utility workers in India from inhaling deadly hydrogen sulphide
- An app that simulates trading on the stock market as well as real life events affecting personal finances
- A virtual reality house inspection app
- An augmented reality remote inspection tool for fire engineers
- Drones and robots that can safely navigate wet and dry environments in water vessel tanks
- A robot that can calibrate and test optimum microphone positioning for audio hardware manufacturers
- Wearable clipboard/tablet device holder enabling nuclear plant workers to carry out inspections hands-free
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