Olympic Staff Will Wear Alibaba Device to Detect Possible Heat Stroke
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Alibaba, the global tech company based in China, has introduced a wearable device to help monitor onsite Olympics staff for signs of heat stroke in the Tokyo summer. After a year-long postponement, the Games officially began this morning with the opening ceremony having started at 7 a.m. ET.
The ear-worn device, which includes an earbud, tracks the wearer’s body temperature and heart rate. That biometric data combines with current weather and environment conditions and feeds into Alibaba’s cloud-based algorithms to compute risk of heat stroke.
Users will receive mobile app notifications about risk level as well as recommendations of taking precautions, such as drinking more water. The heat, humidity and sunlight conditions will be monitored by WetBulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) meters that have been set up at 14 Olympic venues.
Alibaba Cloud is the International Olympic Committee’s official cloud provider and the host of the official Olympics website. Its cloud also provides the computing power for Intel’s 3D Athlete Tracking technology.
Tokyo is accustomed to having hot and humid summers. In 2018, at least 80 people died during a summer heatwave.
“If there are a number of people who have heatstroke, I’m very concerned how they might be treated, and I don’t think we have the capacity to treat a big number of those people,” Makoto Yokohari, professor of environment and urban planning at the University of Tokyo, told Al Jazeera.
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