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Damascus, SANA – The latest in android-powered wearable is a smart helmet produced by los Angeles-based DAQRI Company. It is designed for industrial use and packed with sensors, visor and cameras.
The helmet can be configured for a work environment and intelligent enough to learn the things i.e. it can learn how much pressure of a valve should be, which part is defective in a machine etc.
Where Google Glass and VR companies aim for wide consumer applications, DAQRI has a specific demographic in mind—blue-collar workers.
The DAQRI Smart Helmet wants to help make the lives of onsite engineers, construction workers, and technicians easier with an android-powered hard hat, complete with an array of sensors.
What DAQRI Smart Helmet allows the worker to do is to take work instructions and augment data or information right on top of the actual work environment.
The Wall Street Journal explains that DAQRI team will pack in a bunch of cameras so the headgear can “see” in 360 degrees and a high-precision depth sensor. DAQRI helmet also embedded two Qualcomm Snapdragon processors and can also record data from its multiple cameras.
The smart helmet can pair with a smartphone or a smartwatch. It can be used to visually superimpose instructions on the visor, as an engineer is working to repair a rather complex piece of machinery. It can be used during inspections of expensive equipment before a product is shipped. Data is saved on flash cartridges.
The DAQRI helmet obviously doesn’t have the same target audience as Google Glass has. This isn’t a product that you casually put on before heading out to a bar or restaurant. And even though Google Glass might be able to handle some of the tasks that the helmet will be asked to perform.
R. al-Jazaeri /H. Said
