Samsung Electronics teamed up with the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) to upgrade its Heat Stress Management System to prevent heat-related illnesses among outdoor industrial workers.
The system links Samsung Electronics' AI-based enterprise solution SmartThings Pro with the Galaxy Watch LTE model to manage workers' safety status in the cloud. As a key feature of the SmartThings Pro safety management solution unveiled on Sept. 9, it analyzes individual risk levels by combining environmental data such as on-site temperature and humidity with biometric data including heart rate and activity levels.
The solution also reflects the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL)'s step-by-step response standards for heat waves. It triggers an alert on the manager dashboard when the perceived on-site temperature is 33 degrees or higher for a heat wave advisory, 35 degrees or higher for a heat wave warning, and 38 degrees or higher for a severe warning. Based on this, managers can send rest recommendations or caution alerts to the watches worn by workers. The system is currently being applied at the construction site of a new semiconductor production line at Samsung Electronics' Pyeongtaek Campus.
Samsung Electronics also improved prediction accuracy through collaboration with the University of Incheon and Samsung Medical Center. With the University of Incheon research team, it improved an algorithm that predicts core body temperature in real time using height, weight, sex, age, work environment, and heart rate patterns. With the Samsung Medical Center Institute for Data Science, it confirmed through clinical validation the consistency between physiological responses under heat stress and the algorithm's predicted results.