Aptima, Inc.
Aptima, Inc. is a small business engineering firm, headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, specializing in innovative R&D for various DOD organizations with a focus on end-user applications to augment human performance. Aptima’s expertise is in creating effective end-user solutions through the integration of wearable sensors, secure communications, and intuitive user interface design. Aptima’s work aims to seamlessly blend new technologies with end-users’ natural behaviors and environments, leading to improvements in job performance and decision-making capabilities. Among Aptima’s leading advancements within the DOD are its health/safety monitoring and atmospheric detection systems, which have a broad spectrum of applications from personal health management to industrial workforce safety monitoring. Aptima’s experienced team of scientists and engineers continuously pushes the envelope of human-centric technology, striving to translate theoretical concepts into practical solutions that address the real-world challenges faced by individuals and communities. Aptima prioritizes positive and active collaborative relationships with its project stakeholders, fostering partnerships that propel the collective pursuit of technological excellence and meaningful impact. Aptima’s comprehensive approach to R&D, coupled with a deep understanding of human-systems integration, has established its team as an industry leader in delivering innovative solutions that resonate with the evolving needs and aspirations of the end-users while contributing to the broader scientific and engineering community.
Confined Spaces Monitoring System
Problem:
Gas-free engineering and confined spaces safety management is very challenging. Existing policies, reflecting OSHA regulations, necessitate frequent gas-free verifications and a near 1:1 safety attendant to worker ratio in confined spaces, leading to high manpower costs and operational inefficiencies. Despite significant personnel deployment, manual procedures don’t fully assure safety, and compliance documentation adds to the task burden, revealing a need for improved safety monitoring practices within DOD maintenance environments.
Technology Solution:
CSMS shifts confined space monitoring practices from manual to sensor-based procedures, enabling remote safety attendants to continuously monitor personnel. CSMS provides attendants with enhanced situational awareness, allowing a single individual to safely monitor multiple workers and promptly alert emergency personnel when needed. Through human-worn sensors, CSMS continuously monitors workers’ physiological status and atmospheric conditions, offering automated alerts for concerning events, thereby improving safety, compliance, and operational efficiency in DoD maintenance environments.
Benefits:
CSMS bolsters depot efficiency by minimizing costs and manpower for confined space monitoring, aiding in accelerating production schedules and mitigating weapon system availability delays. The benefits are threefold: (1) Enhanced Safety: faster, automated problem detection; (2) Improved Organizational Efficiency: significant reduction in labor hours for monitoring confined spaces; (3) Augmented Compliance: better adherence to OSHA regulations via digital and semi-automated logging of confined space entries, making CSMS a scalable, data-secure solution for various DOD applications.
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