Concept Safety Systems and Ephox to develop content libraries using Google Glass

Australia’s leading fire safety training providers have teamed up with a California based firm to create vital content libraries based on geospatial and asset identification using the innovative Google Glass.

The project, involving Australia’s Concept Safety Systems (CSS) and American company Ephox, will work towards creating an extensive library of information to identify and record assets, hazards and other various facts about worksites and structures. The project is set to run for 18 months.

Using the Google Glass technology, users will be able to walk through an environment and add any object they see to the library, all “hands free”. They will also be able to record the object’s location and other important details that may be useful to others. The data will then be incorporated into CSS’s online cloud based interactive Fire Evacuation Program (FEP) and the Site Induction Program (SIP) for others to access, modify and use. This is set to revolutionise the health and safety industry and how businesses are run.

The project is led by Ben Davey from Ephox and Emmanuel Bellas at CSS, who said this project is only the beginning.

“This is just the start. We see this as the beginning of a universal online and easy to access library of data for emergency, health and safety facts and figures, as well as asset information,” he said.

“The opportunities that wearable computing technology provides us is exciting.We plan to develop the use of the Google Glass even further, with room for growth in other industries and services.”

For more information regarding this project, visit Concept Safety System online today.