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The aim of this study was to develop a complete system to evaluate the thermal stress in slaughterhouses. The proposed system consists of a wireless sensor network (WSN) using Zigbee technology, providing a set of sensor nodes to measure the slaughterhouse workers body temperature in different regions simultaneously and a another set to measure the environment conditions. The data are collected by a USB Zeegbee module connected to a Windows PC and the PMV (Predict Mean Vote) is showed at real time. A test was conducted in the sector of cuts of a poultry slaughterhouse industry located in the south of Brazil. The results showed a virtually thermal comfort of the workers (by PMV analysis), but a dangerous low values which may cause disease to the worker.
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Güths, S., dos Santos, V.A., Takeda, F., dos Reis, D.C., Moro, A.R.P. (2018). Body Temperature Monitoring System for Slaughterhouse Workers. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Software, and Systems Engineering. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 598. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60011-6_10
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