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Abstract :
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Physiological monitoring has many potential applications for the military where real-time health and performance status of individual soldiers can provide actionable information to the individual, leaders, and medical personnel. This panel advanced the science of physiological monitoring technology applications for protection and enhancement of soldier performance. The results of four years of research discussion, coordination, and direct multinational collaborations were captured in three demonstrations and numerous peer-reviewed publications. Accomplishments of this panel included: information exchanges on technologies and use cases for wearable monitoring technologies; synchronized national wearable monitoring efforts on best practices and lessons learned; a common approach and basis for real-time thermal strain monitoring in the field, now proposed as a new RTG to develop a STANREC; shared mature national efforts on alertness monitoring and crew rest scheduling; explored sensor technologies to fill specific monitoring needs such as boot inserts for ground reaction forces, strategies for inertial navigation, and skin temperature monitoring in cold environments; dissemination of findings from national and multinational studies through relevant conferences, including annual IEEE Body Sensor Networks conferences; conduct of a multinational study led by Switzerland; development of a monitoring systems for applications in training safety for recruits, highlighted in one of the Cooperative Demonstrations of Technology (CDT).
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