The Wearable Control Room

'At a 2004 human factors symposium, a group of automation experts presented a paper titled "The Wearable Control Room: A Prototype for Experimental Testing of New Concepts in Plant Operation." That was quite the futuristic concept at the time, but now, as wearable computing is on the verge of becoming a household word, are we that far away?

There is no doubt that the automation footprint is shrinking. In recent years we have seen increasingly more compact controller and I/O configurations, 3-D virtual reality systems that model the physics of production facilities and virtual servers which reduce the need for hardware dramatically. But will automation technology ever get small enough to wear?'

Source: real-time-answers.com

A recent post from www.real-time-answers.com, titled “The Wearable Control Room: Are we there yet?” covers technologies already in wearable control room such as:

• Process monitoring on a smart watch
• Cloud-based data management
• 3D virtual reality on Oculus Rift

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