Smart Helmet: Combining Sensors, AI, Augmented Reality, and Personal Protection to Enhance First Responders’ Situational Awareness

IF 2.2 4区计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS IT Professional Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI:10.1109/mitp.2023.3335901

Anaida Fernández García, Xabier Oregui Biain, Konstantinos Lingos, Konstantinos Konstantoudakis, Alberto Belmonte Hernández, Izar Azpiroz Iragorri, Dimitrios Zarpalas

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Abstract

Augmented reality can enhance first responders’ situational awareness, displaying data about the environment, location, team status, objectives, and more. However, augmented reality headsets are not well suited to operational use, as they are incompatible with personal protective equipment and lack adequate power autonomy. This article presents the smart helmet, a protective helmet featuring an infrared camera, a power source, a processing hub, and a near-eye augmented reality display. The processing hub runs infrared image enhancement, object recognition AI algorithms, and the augmented reality interface, which can be connected to, and display information from, other components. The smart helmet is modular; therefore, individual parts can be selected according to mission needs, including the helmet structure, processing device, additional sensors, and other connected information sources. The whole system is self-reliant and independent from external connectivity. The smart helmet has been tested in three field trials by first responders of diverse sectors.

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IT Professional COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS-COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

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期刊介绍： IT Professional is a technical magazine of the IEEE Computer Society. It publishes peer-reviewed articles, columns and departments written for and by IT practitioners and researchers covering: practical aspects of emerging and leading-edge digital technologies, original ideas and guidance for IT applications, and novel IT solutions for the enterprise. IT Professional’s goal is to inform the broad spectrum of IT executives, IT project managers, IT researchers, and IT application developers from industry, government, and academia.