Enhancing workplace safety: A flexible approach for personal protective equipment monitoring

Alessia Pisu, Nicola Elia, Livio Pompianu, Francesco Barchi, Andrea Acquaviva, Salvatore Carta

Abstract: Highlights•Monitoring of Personal Protective Equipment leveraging embedded IoT devices.•Cost-effective approach to enhance safety while minimizing worker discomfort.•Exploiting Bluetooth Low Energy signal strength (RSSI) for anomaly detection.•Deploy of machine learning algorithm on low-power embedded devices.•Public dataset of RSSI measurements for PPE wearing and anomalous removal.