Equivital remote physiological welfare monitoring system

Origins
Hidalgo, a Cambridge based product design company, formed in 1997, has developed Equivital in co-operation with the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. Hidalgo specializes in medical device design and radio communications, and has customers and suppliers in Europe, the US and the Far East. The emphasis is on designing products for medium and high volume production runs.

Equivital^TM - Safety Critical

Safety Critical and Hazardous Occupations

Equivital would be used in situations where a worker may be alone or a pair of workers may be simultaneously incapacitated and thus neither could raise the alarm. For example:

• Telecomms workers
• water and gas supply workers
• agricultural workers
• private security forces
• home visiting health care workers
• some construction workers.