Smart helmets to avoid accidents, doors that ask for the results of a covid-19 test, shin guards that report the health of a footballer ... They call it IoT, the internet of things and it is the new technology that has been implemented in recent times and that no longer connects people from all over the world, but objects.
Real-time connections that thanks to the development of the new 5G ecosystem will allow a leap forward in the prevention of occupational risks.
In 2019, there were 1,374,923 work accidents in Spain, according to the annual report published by the General Sub-Directorate of Statistics and Socio-Labor Analysis that depends on the Ministry of Labor.
Of these, 650,602, 47%, had a sick leave.
And there were them with more serious consequences;
558 people died in a work accident last year and 4,335 were seriously injured.
Chironprevention is one of the leading companies in Europe in the prevention of this type of accident, with 4.5 million protected workers.
Its Director of Systems, José María Sagües trusts that the IoT devices that are beginning to be integrated into their plans will give a quantitative leap in the reduction of accidents "due to the ability to take preventive actions in real time" that they allow.
For Sagües, there are three keys for a change of scenario to be ventured: that the accident rate is still high, that the price of technology has decreased and that the awareness of companies in prevention has increased considerably as a result of the pandemic.
To develop these new devices, they need to be integrated with the networks with which they have to work.
In Telefónica's The Thinx laboratory, the communications multinational makes available to entrepreneurs, both small and giants, a test bed in which to adjust ideas and make them functional and efficient with 5G networks.
With this, Telefónica manages to know in a tangible way the correct interoperability between the devices and the network that is in the process of being implemented in Spain and the developers ensure that their projects will function at full capacity.
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