What is heat monitoring? Is it effective to prevent heat-related health issues during training? Yes, heat monitoring provides an instant insight into the welfare and performance of soldiers during training. The data can be effective to monitor the heat, fatigue, and stress to ensure the most out of the training sessions.
WHY IS HEAT MONITORING EFFECTIVE?
Heat stress can cause both mild and major health issues. It can help to find out the long-term and even immediate impact of the heat. As it will help to monitor the heat stress, many potential health issues can be avoided. When the temperature in the body will be more, it will affect cognitive ability. What will happen when your cognitive ability will be affected? You cannot work with your full potential. It will affect your performance and decision-making ability. When the impact will be more, you can even expect worse.
HOW DOES THE HEAT MONITORING WORK?
The LifeMonitor of the Equivital will measure the core temperature of your body by using an ingestible temperature capsule. The capsule can be swallowed. It contains a radio. This miniature radio will transmit your temperature reading randomly within the span of every fifteen seconds. The result will be received by an electric module of the LifeMonitor sensor. The data will be time-stamped and stored locally with other data. The temperature precision is 0.01o C.
In addition to the capsule, the Equivital Black Ghost system can use the core temperature evaluation algorithm for heat monitoring. It will enable trainers, commanders, and supervisors to use the information of core temperature along with the heat strain index levels to make the most accurate and effective decisions on their resource management. The index levels will range from one to twelve. It will have two key measures that include the heat strain level in the last fifteen minutes and the index level of the heat strain.
When the data will be viewed in real-time, the supervisors can make more accurate decisions. They will know the temperature of the training environment and can consider a cooler environment whenever required. The Equivital’s heat monitoring system will offer the exact body temperature and can predict the temperature in advance before fifteen minutes.
BENEFITS OF THE HEAT MONITORING
There will not be any heat-related injury during training sessions. It will prevent any injury and will create a more favorable environment for training. Also, they can take sufficient measures to avoid any complex situation. The military personnel will feel more protected and safe without bothering much about the impact of the heat.
In addition to the heat, LifeMonitor can measure the heart rate, ECG, skin temperature, body position, and the breathing rate. All these are going to make a great difference when it comes to maximizing the benefits of the training.
WRAPPING UP
Equivital Black Ghost heat monitoring system is designed to create a safe and protected environment for the military personnel during the training. It will significantly minimize the incident of heat-related injuries while enabling supervisors to take the right decision in real-time.