Monitoring patient safety during clinical trials is a critical component throughout the drug development life-cycle. Pharmaceutical sponsors must work proactively and collaboratively with all stakeholders to ensure a systematic approach to safety mon...
Safety performance remains a persistent challenge in the construction industry due to hazardous working conditions, dynamic site environments, and complex organizational structures. Despite regulatory advances and technical safety controls, accident...
Suffering from structural deterioration and natural disasters, the resilience of civil structures in the face of extreme loadings inevitably drops, which may lead to catastrophic structural failure and presents great threats to public safety. Earthqu...
In this paper, a LabVIEW-based online monitoring and safety evaluation system for UAVs is designed to address the deficiencies in UAV flight state parameter monitoring and safety evaluation. The system consists of a lower unit for UAV recording and a...
As the impacts of climate change on urban environments and buildings become more and more prominent, building comfort and structural safety monitoring becomes crucial. However, efficiently storing and managing the multi-source monitoring data generat...
Continued expansion of transportation infrastructure into historically and culturally sensitive areas has made tunneling beneath or adjacent to architectural heritage increasingly common. Excavation-induced disturbance, together with support, drainag...
Ground deformation poses a serious threat to the safety of subway structures. Consequently, intelligent and efficient automated safety monitoring of ground deformation along the subway has become urgent. Traditional engineering observation methods ha...
The awareness of tailings dam safety monitoring has widened due to the recent disasters caused by failures of such structures. The failure rate of tailings dams worldwide (i.e., the percentage of failed dams out of total) is estimated at 1.2%, compar...
This paper presents a design and prototype of an IoT-based health and safety monitoring system using MATLAB GUI. This system, which is called the Smart Health and Safety Monitoring System, is aimed at reducing the time, cost and manpower requirements...
Recently, the importance of safety-monitoring systems was highlighted by the unprecedented collision between a ship and a jetty in Yeosu. Accordingly, in this study, we introduce the concept of risk based area and develop a methodology for a jetty...
Mobile scaffolding is essential in construction but presents significant safety risks, particularly falls from height (FFH) due to improper use and insufficient monitoring. While prior research has identified hazards, it often lacks robust, actionabl...
Truck drivers are essential to global freight operations but face disproportionate safety risks due to fatigue, distraction, and demanding working conditions, all of which significantly elevate crash likelihood. This systematic review assesses how mo...
The use of fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors is proposed to solve the technical problem of poor sensor stability in the long-term safety monitoring of shaft lining structures. The auxiliary shaft of the Zhuxianzhuang coal mine was considered as the e...
Road safety has emerged as a global issue, driven by the rapid rise in vehicle ownership and traffic congestion. Human error, like distraction, drowsiness, and panic, is the leading cause of road accidents. Conventional driver monitoring systems (DMS...
Process industries, including chemical, petrochemical, energy, and wastewater treatment systems, operate under high-dimensional, nonlinear, dynamic, and safety-critical conditions. Data-driven process monitoring and fault detection and diagnosis (FDD...
Cost-effective chemosensors have become an indispensable tool for sustainable monitoring in food safety and processing, where there is an urgent need for affordable, efficient, and real-time analytical solutions. This review discusses recent advances...
Effective safety management is vital for ensuring construction safety. Traditional safety inspections in construction heavily rely on manual labor, which is both time-consuming and labor-intensive. Extensive research has been conducted integrating co...
Construction safety requires real-time monitoring due to its hazardous nature. Existing vision-based monitoring systems classify each frame to identify safe or unsafe scenes, often triggering false alarms due to object misdetection or false detection...
Repeated pesticide residue detection in chili peppers in the Republic of Korea has become a serious health concern. Thus, monitoring domestically grown and imported chili peppers for pesticide residues is of great significance. Here, we investigated...
Recent activities in the oil and gas industry have shown an increasing need for monitoring engagements, such as in shipping, logistics, exploration, drilling, or production. Hence, there is a need to have asset management of these offshore assets (or...
Human factors are a primary cause of vehicle accidents. Driver monitoring systems, utilizing a range of sensors and techniques, offer an effective method to monitor and alert drivers to minimize driver error and reduce risky driving behaviors, thus h...
With the increase of bridge-required demolition/dismantling for reconstruction or modification, the early warning of construction emergencies is greatly needed for monitoring the structural safety of bridges under construction. In this paper, based o...
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work considers Smart Personal Protective Equipment as “Intelligent Protection For The Future”. It mainly consists of electronic components that collect data about their use, the workers who wear them, and...
A judgment method of the final setting time of mass concrete based on strain monitoring and the selection criterion of the starting point of effective deformation are proposed, and the safety of the concrete structure is evaluated based on this. Firs...
Abnormal phenomena on urban roads, including uneven surfaces, garbage, traffic congestion, floods, fallen trees, fires, and traffic accidents, present significant risks to public safety and infrastructure, necessitating real-time monitoring and early...
Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in a variety of fields due to their high energy density, high power density, long service life, and environmental friendliness. However, safety accidents with lithium-ion batteries occur frequently. The real-time...
Collecting a myriad of prototype data through various types of monitoring sensors plays a virtual important role in many aspects of dam safety such as real-time grasp of safety state, exposure of hidden dangers, and inspection design and construction...
The safety operation of dams after extreme load is an important frontier research topic in the field of dam engineering. The dam health monitoring provides a reliable data basis for a safety evaluation after extreme loads. This study proposes a novel...
The long-term stable and efficient operation of dams is crucial. How to accurately assess overall dam safety behavior from discrete monitoring data is the key to realizing real-time monitoring and diagnosis of dam safety. Existing real-time dam safet...
The global elderly population continues to increase, and the demand for leisure programs that support active aging is growing. In particular, group-based outdoor activities for seniors are often conducted in large public areas such as parks, ecologic...
Continuous, real-time monitoring of occupational health and safety in high-risk workplaces such as construction sites can substantially improve the safety of workers. However, introducing such systems in practice is associated with a number of challe...
With the depletion of fossil energy, offshore wind power has become an irreplaceable energy source for most countries in the world. In recent years, offshore wind power generation has presented the gradual development trend of larger capacity, taller...
The recent tailings storage facility (TSF) dam failures recorded around the world have concerned society in general, forcing the mining industry to improve its operating standards, invest greater economic resources, and implement the best available t...
Tunnel structures account for la large proportion of the structures in mountain highway transportation systems. Most tunnels are located in remote areas in which the geological conditions are complex and harsh and in which the layout of the managemen...
This study focuses on the importance of the real-time monitoring of bolt loads in roadways affected by high-intensity mining and the limitations of conventional monitoring methods. Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors were embedded and encapsulated in r...
To address the uncontrollable risks associated with the overreliance on ship operators’ driving in current ship safety braking methods, this study aims to reduce the impact of operator fatigue on navigation safety. Firstly, this study establish...
In view of the fact that field monitoring information can more intuitively and accurately reflect the stability state of slopes, this paper takes the warning threshold of slope deformation rate monitoring as the slope stability evaluation standard, a...
Monitoring of roof activity is a primary measure adopted in the prevention of roof collapse accidents and functions to optimize and support the design of roadways in underground coalmines. However, traditional monitoring measures, such as using mecha...
The safety of urban transportation systems is considered a public health issue worldwide, and many researchers have contributed to improving it. Connected automated vehicles (CAVs) and cooperative intelligent transportation systems (C-ITSs) are consi...
The convergence of the Internet of Physical–Virtual Things (IoPVT) and the Metaverse presents a transformative opportunity for safety and health monitoring in outdoor environments. This concept paper explores how integrating human activity reco...
The measured dynamic response of concrete arch dams under seismic excitation is a typical time series that contains rich information about structural conditions. Safety monitoring based on dynamic responses of arch dam structures is highly important...
This paper addresses the critical issue of road safety in the indispensable role of transportation for societal well-being and economic growth. Despite global initiatives like Vision Zero, traffic accidents persist, largely influenced by driver behav...
Construction is a highly hazardous industry typified by several complex features in dynamic work environments that have the possibility of causing harm or ill health to construction workers. The constant monitoring of workers’ unsafe behaviors...
The overlying rock layers in a mining area may collapse or settle, subjecting pipelines to uneven forces that can lead to deformation or even fracture. This paper proposes a pipeline safety monitoring method that combines fiberoptic vibration and str...
The implementation of an energy storage system (ESS) as a container-type package is common due to its ease of installation, management, and safety. The control of the operating environment of an ESS mainly considers the temperature rise due to the he...
There are significant risks in the construction sector, with falls from height identified a greater hazard than in most other industries. Efforts to improve working conditions and reduce accident rates have driven research into real-time monitoring t...
The safe operation of dams is related to the lifeline of the national economy, the safety of the people, and social stability, and dam safety monitoring plays an essential role in scientifically controlling the safety of dams. Since the effects of en...
With the changes of lifestyles and rapid growth of prepared food industry, prepared fried rice that meets the consumption patterns of contemporary young people has become popular in China. Although prepared fried rice is convenient and nutritious, it...
Conveyor belts are critical in various industries, particularly in the barrier eddy current separator systems used in recycling processes. However, hidden issues, such as belt misalignment, excessive heat that can lead to fire hazards, and the presen...
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All medicinal products authorized in the European Union are subjects of constant drug-safety monitoring processes. It is organized in a pharmacovigilance system that is designed to protect human health and life by the detection, analysis and preventi...
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