title: Psycho-physiological tele-monitoring of human operators in commercial diving: The Life Support System in the SUONO project.
abstract: Sea-diving operations for monitoring or intervention are carried out by highly-specialized divers called Certified Commercial Divers (CCD). CCDs operate under highly demanding working conditions in extreme and hazardous environments. Every day consists of an 8 hours' shift. To avoid decompression problems the remaining 16 hours are spent in a hyperbaric environment located aboard the surface vessel or on the platform. These operating conditions require the design of a technologically-advanced device for tele-monitoring, to maximize CCDs' safety. Here we describe a proposal for monitoring and supporting CCDs during operations. We design a dedicated Life Support System (LSS), that captures real-time, vital (heart rate, respiratory rate, accelerometry, etc) and stress-related (heart-rate variability) signals from operators to transmit them to dedicated servers via telematic protocols. LSS is equipped with protocols for tele-medicine/tele-consultation. Our system is being developed within the research project SUONO (Safe Underwater OperatioNs in Oceans).
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laurino
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guerriero
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Allegrini
authors.forename: Danilo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Menicucci
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mastorci
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Magrin
authors.forename: Benedetto
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Allotta
authors.forename: Remo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bedini
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gemignani
mesh_terms: D004242:Diving / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008021:Life Support Systems; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*