Wearables for Responder Situational Awareness and Health Monitoring

Citation
Responder of the Future Dialogue, Section 5.1: Wearables for Responder Situational Awareness and Health Monitoring (July 29, 2015) (full-text).

Overview
Wearable technology. . . is clothing or body-worn devices that incorporate advanced electronics, computers, sensors, or applications. Designs for wearable technology incorporate practical features of interest to the emergency response community including monitoring of location and vital signs of responders. Wearable consumer products for fitness, medical purposes, communication, and fashion are already on the market. These include smart bracelets and other fitness products, smart watches, wearable medical devices and cameras, and visor-based products (e.g., Google Glass).

Large influential companies such as Google, Apple, Samsung, Nike, and Microsoft are making strategic investments in the technology and are capturing the attention of a wide mass market which could also lead to cost-effective products for public safety.