Design Day features bulletproof vest that calls for backup


A bulletproof vest that calls for backup when injured officers can’t emerged as one of the School of Engineering’s annual Design Day’s most fascinating offerings, holding promise to move from undergraduate project to life-saving purchase.To get more news about bulletproof zone review, you can visit bulletproofboxs.com official website.

The science-fair-meets-the-Consumer-Electronics-Show type of event features 70 teams of graduating seniors standing by to demonstrate their engineering answers to real-life challenges. Corporate and nonprofit sponsors propose the problems, advise the teams throughout the academic year and own the intellectual property at the end of it.

The special vest was the brainchild of GPS-911, a partnership of current and former law enforcement officers who want to keep their colleagues safer. They applauded the students’ creation, called HERMES – Health Evaluation and Real-time Monitoring-based Emergency Signaling.

Company partner and former New York Police Department officer Jim Shepherd said he carried out the grim task of finding fellow officers’ bodies in the Twin Towers wreckage after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In many cases, their ballistic vests, their names printed neatly inside, were the only identifying feature that survived the collapse.

The HERMES vest monitors the wearer’s heartbeat and breathing and calls for backup when it senses an officer has been shot or fallen on the ground. Sensors indicate the presence of blood, as opposed to sweat or other liquid, by detecting blood sugar.

“Our integration algorithm continuously reads the sensor measurements from the Arduino board and compares it against pre-determined threshold values that we think would define an emergency,” said team member Kathryn Snyder, an electrical engineering major. “Once that threshold has been met, an alert text message is sent to a specified phone number. Data is also transmitted whether or not the threshold is met to a website where you can see the live graphs of the officer.”