Enhancing Safety: SmartHat Awarded India’s Best Design Project 2023

SmartHat is a smart safety helmet designed to enhance workplace safety. The helmet comes with advanced features such as real-time tracking, environmental sensors, human condition monitoring sensors, and communication tools to enhance situational awareness for workers.

Addressing an Untapped Industry

Blue-collar workers, who constitute 78% of the global workforce, face significant challenges in utilising modern technology on the job. Due to safety concerns, convenience issues, or job-specific constraints, they often lack access to laptops, smartphones, and other smart devices. This gap has left a trillion-dollar industry—encompassing sectors such as oil and gas, construction, mining, logistics, warehousing, and renewable energy—largely unattended. To bridge the divide between white-collar and blue-collar workers, there was a pressing need for a solution that is immersive, intelligent, handsfree, analytical, safe, and collaborative.

A Comprehensive Safety Platform

The SmartHat is an advanced helmet technology designed to address these needs with a robust safety platform that integrates a device and a dashboard through IoT. It enables real-time detection of anomalies in harsh work environments and transmits critical information to the dashboard, even if the user is unable to manually report issues. Complying with Zone 1 Class C safety regulations, the SmartHat is specifically engineered for rugged industries, providing enhanced safety in challenging settings.

Durable and Flexible Design: All-in-One SaaS Solution

The SmartHat system includes an all-in-one dashboard that allows users to manage and monitor all devices from a single location. Key features include location tracking, SOS alerts, lone worker monitoring, and device status tracking. This centralised control enhances oversight and ensures that safety measures are effectively maintained, no matter where the devices are deployed.

It is equipped with a removable blast-proof battery, making it suitable for use in extreme conditions such as mines, oil rigs, and construction sites. This battery features patented blast-proof technology to ensure maximum durability, while its removable design adds flexibility and convenience for users in demanding environments.

The helmet also includes a detachable gas sensor capable of monitoring 14 flammable and 3 toxic gases. The sensor provides alerts through sound and LED indicators, and its data is displayed on the dashboard. Its design allows for mounting in various positions, including the lower part of the body, facilitating quicker gas detection since gases generally rise from the bottom.

SmartHat also features front and back LEDs that function as both a torch and SOS lights. These LEDs are particularly useful in low-light conditions, such as those encountered in mines, construction areas, and warehouses, enhancing visibility and safety for workers.

Far-reaching Impact

The increase in brain injuries within industries like construction, mining, and manufacturing has intensified the focus on worker safety. Regulatory mandates and a growing emphasis on protective measures are expected to drive market growth, highlighting the importance of innovations like SmartHat in advancing safety standards. With a comprehensive approach to safety and technology integration, SmartHat represents a significant advancement in protecting blue-collar workers and addressing an underserved sector in the global workforce.

Credit: Everywhere as a Service