Xenoma
Assembly Line
Smart apparel that evaluates workers' physical workload
One of the biggest challenges faced by society in developed countries is an aging society due to a declining birth rate. What this means is that there is or will be a serious labor shortage both in terms of overall numbers as well as those with expertise or experience. To overcome this shortage, older people or foreign workers are being increasingly employed to fill the gap. At such sites, accidents or injuries due to unfamiliar work may occur. Thus, it is important to understand how the physical workload is being handled in order to ensure a healthy and safe work environment. In this blog, Iād like to talk about the work that we are doing to quantitatively visualize strain and enable the most appropriate response based on the physical load.
In collaboration with Xenoma Inc., the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and its spin-off sci-track GmbH, Hitachi is pursuing the research and development of wearable AI technology that monitors workers physical load at all times in an effort to achieve solutions that improve worker safety and health in industrial fields.