Fatigue & Heat Stress

Fatigue

Fatigue is increasing being viewed as hazardous to society's health. Many jobs and job tasks require individuals to be functioning at a high mental alertness without symptoms of fatigue. Legislation on the identification and management of fatigue in hazardous environments, mining, flying and trucking industry are becoming common.

Actigraphy is a part of the tool box to identify and mange fatigue in individuals. Actigraphy is an objective measure of activity and sleep/wake patterns over time. Actigraphy devices use accelerometers to measure movement over a period of time. Data can be recorded over multiple days in the patient's own environment to provide an objective record for tracking and documenting normal and abnormal activity or sleep/wake patterns.

An Actiwatch is an actigraphy device that is a compact, wrist worn, battery operated activity monitor that looks like a wrist watch.
The Actiwatch is used by clinicians and researchers to help diagnose, measure and monitor individuals suffering from sleep disorders.

Actiwatch Sleep Watches

Insomniac Actogram 
(Blue is Sleep)

Heat Stress, Physical Load Assessment and Lone Worker Monitoring

The Equivital System from Hidalgo is the most advanced Physiological Welfare Monitoring System available on the market today. Equivital can assist with: training | monitoring heat stress | understanding the physical workload for a particular task | monitoring workers in hazardous work places

Equivital is used in Australia by the Military, Fire Service, University Research, Oil and Gas, Elite Sports, Sleep Diagnostics - Circadian Phase Assessment.

Equivital Records or Transmits data for:
Core Body Temperature | 7 Wireless Skin Patches | Temperature | EEG | Heart Rate | Heart Rate Variability (HRV) | Respiration | Tri Axel Accelerometry | Falls Monitoring | Body Position | GPS Location | Galvanic Skin Response| Pulse Oximetry (SPO2) + Pleth Wave.

Local Transmission is via Blue tooth long range transmission is through wireless data via a Blackberry, Android or Private Radio Network.