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LIFEWATCH - EFFECTIVELY MANAGING FIREFIGHTERS' CONDITIONS DURING EXECUTION

Firefighters face many risks in their line of work, particularly physiological stresses and hazardous risks. Hazardous risks are inherently inevitable and mitigated by sound training principles, planning, and equipment maintenance; While physiological stresses and the risks that follows can be avoided with real-time monitoring of a firefighter's vitals, and the balancing of workload within a team.

The extreme heat, smog, and load of equipment in firefighting precipitates as health risks during firefighting operations such as heat fatigue, and shortage of oxygen and light-headedness. In some cases, generally healthy firemen with some development of plaque in the heart may suffer from acute cardiac arrest under extreme conditions

(https://www.fsi.illinois.edu/documents/research/FFLSRC_FinalReport.pdf)

These physiological risks poses a danger to not only individual firefighters, but the entire team; akin to a casualty during wartime.

The SCDF utilises an outdated 'staging' practice - a rotation system that manually tracks time spent by firefighters in 'hot-zones' during training and operations. This practice ensures integrity of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and personnel physiological status are constantly upkept to minimise physiological stresses and risks.

However, the manual nature of this practice leads to extra manpower demands, and a potential for human error in accurately determining a firefighter's physiological state. With LIFEWATCH, we've developed a prototype platform that uses XXX (XXX TECHNOLOGIES TO BE GIVEN A SHORT EXPLANATION) to measure XXX factors. This data is then used by a machine learning algorithm to predict the current physical condition of the firefighter and the need to withdraw the firefighter from the scene, all automated, no human error. (MAYBE ABIT MORE ELAB)

Our Solution

LIFEWATCH is based on these features:

  1. [The sensor](throw the link of the readme)
  2. IBM IoT Platform
  3. Node-RED
  4. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
  5. Dashboard

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Project Contents

What is LIFEWATCH?

Watch this video to understand what LIFEWATCH is all about and how we solve firefighters' pressing concerns.

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Understanding LIFEWATCH in detail

Please read solution.md for a comprehensive explanation.

Our Architecture

Architecture Overview

Please read solution.md for a comprehensive explanation.

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Components

Hardware:

  • Wearable Sensor
    • (Components)

Cloud:

  • IBM Watson IoT Platform - Gathers data from the wearables
  • Node-RED - Facilitates data transfer between the ML models and the IoT platform
  • IBM Kubernetes Service - Container Service for rapid delivery of applications

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Client Frontend: (Dashboard)

Component Details

A step by step understanding of the different component details.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of our project up and running on your local machine for testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

Give examples

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development environment running

Say what the step will be

Give the example

And repeat

until finished

End with an example of getting some data out of the system or using it for a little demo

Running Tests

Explain how to run the automated tests for this system

Break down into end to end tests

Explain what these tests test and why

Give an example

And coding style tests

Explain what these tests test and why

Give an example

Live Demo

To understand how our product is done, please watch this live demo.

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Built With

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Project Roadmap

LIFEWATCH currently is working on:

  • ABC
  • DEF
  • GHI

LIFEWATCH is planning to work on:

  • 123
  • 456
  • 789

LIFEWATCH will eventually work on:

  • 123
  • 456
  • 789

FINAL GOALS: Roll out LIFEWATCH to entire SCDF as a valuable and effective personnel management platform.

Team Name and Authors

Team Name:

Open Sauce

Members:

  • Wang Dong Yue

  • Lim Yun Jie

  • Yap Tzi Richard

  • Zhang Yu Feng

  • Jeremy Ong Keng Chuan

License

This project is licensed under the XXX License - see the LICENSE.md file for details. (whatever it is)

Acknowledgments

  • Ye Hein Aung, friend and a Section Commander in firefighting in the SCDF
  • XXX
  • XXX