Safety equipment

Tender description

This is an Innovation Partnership Procurement to deliver a solution to identify and alert when a driver or operator is at risk of losing focus or consciousness when in charge of a vehicle or machinery. The solution should measure/monitor numerous bio-metrics to provide the most accurate alerts and include associated data analytics and data visualisation to a control room environment. Significant cause for accidents in railway and bus networks is driver health. Accidents can often be linked to two aggravating factors; fatigue and illness resulting reduced cognitive awareness, loss of consciousness or capacity at the wheel. The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) and Edinburgh Trams are working together to ensure the safety of public transport in the city by mitigating risks, and to continue to provide the city with excellent public transport infrastructure. To this end, the Council is seeking to put a contract in place to develop a device to monitor and analyse various bio-metric to: — pre-emptively identify the main typologies of illness resulting loss of consciousness or capacity at the wheel, — Identify reduced focus due to fatigue — create real time alerts to control room environments to allow mitigating actions to be implemented.