Digital Hardhat
- Post by: Tobias Larsson
- 27th October 2023
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“Construction Site Safety Starts with Us: Hardhat On, Hazards Gone!”
Programme: Mechanical Engineering
Course: MT2569 – Design Thinking
Corporate partner: Volvo Construction Equipment
Challenge: Find ways to further increase construction worksite safety, and develop a high fidelity prototype that achieves that goal.
Solution: A software based application accessible on mobile phones or the web. The application ensures that construction workers are aware of local & relevant hazards on a daily basis and enables reporting of incidents or possible dangers.
Impact: The increased awarness of local and relevant potential hazards for construction workers would reduce the risk for serious incidents.
Prototypes: With the help of “Noodl” software development platform, we developed a backend database with report data. With focus on making the application intuitive and easy to use quickly, we also developed a frontend UI that lets the user access the information from the database as well as new data to it. We learned that the user experience of using a application takes a lot of time and effort to perfect, and implementations that to us seem clear cut, could be seen as unintuitive from the users point of view.
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Project team:
- Edwin Östlund, Mechanical Engineer, Class of 2019
- Joar Östberg, Mechanical Engineer, class of 2020
- Paul Kan-Siary, Mechanical Engineer, class of 2019
- André Glanvik, Mechanical Engineer, class of 2020
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