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Workwear that can save your life

When it comes to electrical accidents, every second counts. The later an accident is discovered, the later help arrives, the more serious the consequences usually are. This is where the ANGEL shirt from the Salzburg company ADRESYS, part of the OMICRON electronics group, comes in. The smart textile

ANGEL: a shirt brings help

When coming into contact with current, a few milliseconds are often enough to inflict life-threatening injuries on a person: ventricular fibrillation, respiratory arrest or organ failure are just a few of them.

The ANGEL system from ADRESYS, a company of the OMICRON electronics group, recognizes such electrical accidents as well as falls, motionlessness/unconsciousness or other emergencies. In cases of emergency it immediately informs several emergency contact persons from a list, that was created when the system was set up. These people, e.g. colleagues or company contacts near the place of work, get informed via SMS and voice call that an accident has happened and where it took place. The emergency contact persons then decide what is the best and fastest way to help.

ANGEL is a combination of textile and electronic elements that ensures that the shirt is easy to wear and can fulfill its function as a lifesaver.
The system consists of three components: a smart textile shirt with electrodes in the upper arm cuffs that measure the current in your body. The system forwards the data to a small data processing device that is clipped to the shirt on the left upper arm. This data processing unit evaluates and is connected to a smartphone app via Bluetooth®. This app takes over further communication.

ANGEL not only recognizes an electrical accident, but also a fall with subsequent immobility. The system also reacts if a wearer is motionless for a certain period of time, because this could indicate unconsciousness or another life-threatening situation.

The system is easy to use. Washing the shirt is uncomplicated, wearing it is comfortable, using the app is simple and intuitive, and the daily use in general requires almost no effort. In concrete terms, this means: Put on your shirt, click the data processing unit into your shirt and activate the app - that's enough for ANGEL to be able to save your life in an emergency.

If you would like to know more about ANGEL and ADRESYS, please visit us at www.adresys.com.