Project created at the NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany. By Egael Gomez & Maribel Zamorano.

1. SmartWork Suit
Egael Gomez - egaelgr@gmail.com
Maribel Zamorano - maribel.zamorano@gmail.com
SPACE WEARABLES: DESIGNING FOR TODAY’S LAUNCH & RESEARCH STARS

2. Who are we?
• Egael Gomez Ramos- “The tech lover”
• Maribel Zamorano Castro - “The science lover”
• Both Master in distributed software systems at TU Darmstadt, Germany.
Related Experience: We both worked deploying wireless sensors nodes that communicate with rescue
robots, with the goal of helping them to rescue people inside buildings, this was done at The Technology
Innovation Zentrum (TIZ) in Darmstadt.

3. Background
“Wearable Revolution”

4. Background
“Ground Processing workers”
• Engineers, scientist and technicians.
• Build amazing things (rockets, satellites and other things).
• Test, fuel, integrate and monitor the vehicle.
• Observe, record and report vehicle status.
• Analyze manuals, procedures, specifications and security standard.

5. • Interruption of work
• Loss of focus.
• They are constantly on the move without a computer
• Recording and reporting data is a challenge
• Sometimes just picking a tablet could be improper
Background
“Workers Issues”

6. Build wearable technology to help workers!
Mision Challenge

7. Mision Challenge
“Our Solution”
• Adopted in a normal work suit used by workers at NASA, without affecting normal
operations of the workers.
• Several sensors are used to sense the workers environment:
Touch screen of 8.1 cm, a good size for autonomy, user experience and for
displaying user interfaces, manuals, sensor readings, alarms and notifications.
Camera and microphone for creation of reports and remainders with pictures and
voice notes.
Gas and smoke sensor for safety of the worker. (if gas/smoke levels are high = alarm)
Temperature and humidity control (Special materials are easily affected)
Wifi device for sending and receiving all data created by the suit.
Speaker for sound alarms.

8. Mision Challenge
“Sensors on suit location”

9. • SmarWork Suit can display information about other available sensors
connected to internet.
• The idea is that the user can subscribe to interested and available IoT
sensors that could be distributed over the place of work.
• User can create alarms with IoT sensors, for example, “send me an alarm
when the room_23 temperature >= 40°c”.
Mision Challenge
“Reading Internet of things devices ”
IoT Builded prototype sensing the temperature of a room and sending the readings to the cloud

10. • Sorry for bad pictures (no screenshot functionality, yet).
• Interface easy to use, very intuitive.
• Display information about suit’s sensor readings, such as temperature, humidity and gas. It is also
displaying temperature about an IoT device located in the room 44.
• Direct access to voice notes and picture capturing.
• Visual alert will be triggered when a threshold is reach.
Mision Challenge
“User Interface”

11. • Data gathered from sensors could be analyze
in real time by administrators and user via web.
Mision Challenge
“Analyzing persisted information”
Builded prototype’s temperature gathered and being display in a third party cloud provider

12. Mision Challenge
“Advantages”
• Building cost per suit is around > 60 euro and could be much
cheaper.
• Smart Watches and sunglasses are not optimal for reading and
analyzing huge books or manuals (it is not intuitive).
• Screen sizes influence in user experience. (steve jobs said it)
• The suit is confortable, almost unnoticeable for the user. (we forgot to
weight it before build it).
• At least 3.5 hours of autonomy with screen and sensors turned on all
the time with the batteries on suit without a battery saver mechanism.
• The suit can help not just NASA (imagine hospitals, labs, enterprises)

13. • Define archetypes of all workers at NASA, in this way the
suit can be adapted for each real need.
• Position tracking system (indoors vs outdoors?).
• Voice control to control things
• Arms movement could be sense for special purpose
apps (control machines for example).
• Interactive applications using the display
• Big window for enhancements.
Mision Challenge
“Future posible Enhancements”

14. THANK YOU