Real-time personalized monitoring to estimate occupational heat stress in ambient assisted working

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dc.contributor.authorPancardo, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorAcosta, Francisco D.
dc.contributor.authorHernández Nolasco, José Adán
dc.contributor.authorWister, Miguel A.
dc.contributor.authorLópez de Ipiña González de Artaza, Diego
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-27T09:00:59Z
dc.date.available2026-02-27T09:00:59Z
dc.date.issued2015-07-13
dc.date.updated2026-02-27T09:00:59Z
dc.description.abstractAmbient Assisted Working (AAW) is a discipline aiming to provide comfort and safety in the workplace through customization and technology. Workers’ comfort may be compromised in many labor situations, including those depending on environmental conditions, like extremely hot weather conduces to heat stress. Occupational heat stress (OHS) happens when a worker is in an uninterrupted physical activity and in a hot environment. OHS can produce strain on the body, which leads to discomfort and eventually to heat illness and even death. Related ISO standards contain methods to estimate OHS and to ensure the safety and health of workers, but they are subjective, impersonal, performed a posteriori and even invasive. This paper focuses on the design and development of real-time personalized monitoring for a more effective and objective estimation of OHS, taking into account the individual user profile, fusing data from environmental and unobtrusive body sensors. Formulas employed in this work were taken from different domains and joined in the method that we propose. It is based on calculations that enable continuous surveillance of physical activity performance in a comfortable and healthy manner. In this proposal, we found that OHS can be estimated by satisfying the following criteria: objective, personalized, in situ, in real time, just in time and in an unobtrusive way. This enables timely notice for workers to make decisions based on objective information to control OHS.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by Juarez Autonomous University of Tabasco through the Research Promotion Program, under the project, “Custom physiological monitoring to estimate heat stress in the workplace” (Project UJAT-2014-IA-01)en
dc.identifier.citationPancardo, P., Acosta, F. D., Hernández-Nolasco, J. A., Wister, M. A., & López-de-Ipiña, D. (2015). Real-time personalized monitoring to estimate occupational heat stress in ambient assisted working. Sensors (Switzerland), 15(7), 16956-16980. https://doi.org/10.3390/S150716956
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/S150716956
dc.identifier.issn1424-8220
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/5273
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.rights© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
dc.subject.otherAmbient assisted working
dc.subject.otherAmbient intelligence
dc.subject.otherISO
dc.subject.otherOccupational heat stress
dc.subject.otherPersonalized monitoring
dc.subject.otherWearable sensors
dc.titleReal-time personalized monitoring to estimate occupational heat stress in ambient assisted workingen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage16980
oaire.citation.issue7
oaire.citation.startPage16956
oaire.citation.titleSensors (Switzerland)
oaire.citation.volume15
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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