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AFRL team enhances safety for survival specialists through wearable health monitoring technology

With SHARK, sensors are embedded into shirts to transmit key metrics including heart rate and estimated core temperature from smartphones to a server the system allows instructors to monitor the data in real-time and issues alerts for heart rate spikes and significant increases in temperature.
U.S. Air Force Capt. Logan Hawke, a pilot assigned to the 16th Airlift Squadron, U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. William Davis and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Randall Moss, loadmasters assigned to the 16th Airlift Squadron, communicate with rescue forces with a radio during a survival, evasion, resistance, and escape exercise August 21, 2019, in North, South Carolina. SERE specialists assigned to the 437th Operations Support Squadron conducted this exercise in order to identify potential areas of improvement in both SERE training and equipment provided to aircrew in case of a potential isolating event. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Duncan C. Bevan)

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1984708/afrl-team-enhances-safety-for-survival-specialists-through-wearable-health-moni/ Whitney Wetsig

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