PROTECTIVE HEADGEAR INCLUDING A PERSONNEL ELECTRONIC MONITOR DEVICE

摘要

Protective headgear (10, 100) for use in dangerous and/or hazardous locations may comprise: a headgear shell (12); a locator device (162) on the headgear shell (12) for providing location data; a motion sensor (164) on the headgear shell (12) for providing motion data; a memory (152) on the headgear shell (12) and having a unique identifier stored therein and configured to store the location data and the motion data; a transmitter-receiver (170) for transmitting the location data, the motion data and the unique identifier to a remote database (360) and for receiving notification data therefrom; and a user interface (120, 130) responsive to the received notification data to provide a visual notification or an audible notification or a physical notification or a combination thereof.