There’s a name for too much coming at you in the healthcare industry.
“They call it alarm fatigue,” said Mika Majapuro, director of product development for Glenview, IL–based Teletrac Navman, who previously worked for Benicia, CA–based Honeywell developing rugged smartphones and hand-held computers to optimize nursing work flows in busy hospitals.
“Every single room has multiple machines and every employee has multiple devices sounding alerts,” Majapuro said. “Alarm fatigue is when you don’t know anymore what to react to because the lights and buzzers are going off all of the time, making it increasingly difficult to separate a life-threatening event from the noise.”
When it comes to construction job site adoption of augmented reality — the layering of digital data and information over a real-time visual interface — Majapuro anticipates a similar challenge, especially as smart devices, sensors and internet of things (IoT)-enabled equipment continue to proliferate. As a national provider of mixed-fleet telematics, Teletrac Navman collects data on 500,000 different equipment assets across six continents, tracking dozens of real-time fuel, engine and operator performance metrics. read more >>
