Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is anything used or worn by a worker onsite to reduce their health and safety risk. This includes, but is not limited to, high-visibility clothing, hard hats, earplugs and gloves. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the significant need for workers' safety in their environments, as well as the need for high-quality, durable and readily available PPE.

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Smart PPE is the next generation of risk-prevention technology, able to connect the worker over Bluetooth, the internet, smartphones, and cloud-based analytics platforms. Smart PPE delivers real-time safety information or alerts to workers in the field and their supervisors remotely, and has the capacity to send critical data and location information, minimise exposure to hazards, and automatically adjust to internal and external conditions. 

Canaria Technologies meets the increasing demand for smart PPE with the Canaria-V, a sleek, non-invasive earpiece that provides real-time alerts to minimise workers' risks and ensure safety.

 

The Canaria-V employs transmissive photoplethysmography (PPG) technology in the wearable device to monitor heart rate, heart rate variability, respiration, blood oxygen levels, and core body temperature in the wearer. Ambient data is also collected, to contextualise the wearer’s physiology in their environment and alert to potentially hazardous conditions that may cause Cognitive Fatigue and Heat Stress. As such, the Canaria-V device provides a non-invasive, economical solution for heavy industry and has the potential to save millions of lives globally.