At the Heart of IoT: Tracking Worker's Vital Signs for Safety

Innovations in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) world are vast and often mechanically driven, with sensors, systems and applications designed to instrument massive factories to reduce costs and optimize outputs. More cars, better made, at a lower cost, with continual opportunities for improvement.
More designer water, bottled faster, with fewer humans, with fewer errors, and greater predictability.
More machines, maintained automatically, with alerts sent when part A or part B is on the cusp of malfunctioning. More and more, for less and less, with better quality and more efficiency – it’s all good.
But good became great this week when four companies – Behr Technologies, Advantech, Hitachi Solutions America and Microsoft announced at Microsoft’s massive Inspire event a private IIoT connectivity solution with a lot of bells and whistles that they are rolling out first with an application that will make real live humans safer.