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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2020
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Kiran S. Kanukurthy, Cottage Grove, MN (US);
Steven T. Awiszus, Woodbury, MN (US);
Eric C. Lobner, Woodbury, MN (US);
Michael G. Wurm, Waukesha, WI (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
In some examples, a system includes a plurality of articles of personal protected equipment (PPE) that are each assigned to a particular worker. The system may also include a data hub that detects an input that initiates a broadcast of diagnostic self-check messages; identifies, in response to the input, each article of PPE of the plurality of articles of PPE; broadcasts, based on identifying each article of PPE, the diagnostic self-check messages to the respective articles of PPE, wherein each article of PPE receives its respective self-check message at its communication component; in response to receiving a set of diagnostic acknowledgement messages from one or more of the plurality of articles of PPE that have performed a diagnostic self-check, determines whether the set of diagnostic acknowledge messages satisfy one or more self-check criteria; and performs one or more operations based on whether the self-check criteria are satisfied.