Abstract— For operating machine tools, safety is an essential requirement. The electronics and information technologies enable us to build a safety device into gloves and helmets to stop machine tools when these safety equipments enter a dangerous area. In this detection system, it is important to prevent errors where the operator forgets or neglects wearing above equipments. According to our investigation, an adequate equipment-wearing detection system does not. In this paper, we propose an equipment-wearing detection system. The aim of this system is to stop a starter and motor/engine installed vehicles and machine tools when a person intends to operate them without wearing safety equipments. We also carried out experimental tests of a laboratory prototype of a system described above.
Index Terms— Application of intra-body communication (IBC) technology, industry, sensor systems, safety system.
Masaki Fujikawa was in the Research & Development Initiative, Chuo University. He is now with in the Security Science Institute, Sohgo Security Services Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan (e-mail: fujikawa-masaki@alsok.co.jp). Masakatsu Nishigaki is with the Graduate School of Science and Technology of Shizuoka University, Shizuoka Pref., Japan (e-mail: nishigaki@inf.shizuoka.ac.jp).
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Cite: Masaki Fujikawa and Masakatsu Nishigaki, " Proposal of the Detection System for Safety Equipment-Wearing Using IBC," International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 476-480, 2013.
