CUSTOMIZABLE AND INTERACTIVE SIGNAGE SYSTEM TO SUPPORT WORKPLACE SAFETY AND PREVENTION REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES.

Description

Customizable and interactive signage system to support workplace safety and prevention regulations and procedures. DESCRIPTION Patent description of the utility model entitled: "Customizable and interactive signage system to support workplace safety and prevention regulations and procedures." Invention filed in the name of Attilio Giovanni Pisicchio. Designated Inventor: Attilio Giovanni Pisicchio Technical Description The UNI EN ISO 7010:2023 standard, which defines safety pictograms in the workplace, is based on conventionally recognized symbols, colors, and shapes used to represent the associated safety areas. Each safety symbol is visually associated with a state of alertness and attention to accident prevention. While the graphic design remains unchanged, only the size can be varied based on the viewing distance of the safety pictogram. The current symbolic, visual model lacks specific information regarding workplace safety warnings and the contextualization of the hazard to which the worker is exposed. This utility model patent evolves the current visual system of safety signage with an innovative signage system that positions, speeds up, and facilitates access to all workplace safety information provided by the company, integrating some of the most modern digital technologies known today: Augmented Reality, contactless NFC, and QR code. Signage with Augmented Reality content activation system: The patented, cost-effective implementation of the interactive signage system includes physical signs with pixel-mapped recognition capabilities, with 100% constant activation validity, in the form of histograms fused with existing graphics. The composition of the images shown in Figure 1, in addition to representing the reference pictogram corresponding to the safety sign, is accompanied by 12 additional smaller graphic figures, referring to the indicated safety area. This graphic composition (Figure 1) is capable of generating stable pixel recognition for augmented reality readers at the highest level of performance (100%). Figure 1 The generated composition of the minor icons is loaded in black and white (without color) onto the Augmented Reality recognition systems as shown in Figure 2 and the computer system acquires the histogram integrated into the graphics as shown in Figure 3. Figure 2 Figure 3 The innovative safety signage referred to the utility model, considering the design of its composition model, will be able to generate new graphics and infinite histograms with the same level of performance (100%) functional to the streaming positioning systems of enabling technologies, such as augmented reality. It can be deduced that one of the most important features of the safety signs proposed in the utility model is the ability to generate signs featuring the same safety pictogram but with different histograms integrated into the graphics, capable of activating different multimedia content. The innovative signage will offer the fusion of the digital and the real, contextualizing information in the workplace, based on the company's safety needs. Figure 4 Figure 5 As demonstrated in Figure 4, the layout of the 12 minor icons present in the sign has been changed compared to Figure 2. The new arrangement of the minor icons has generated a new and different histogram Figure 5, different from Figure 3, to which new safety information recalled by the augmented reality system can be linked. Integrated signage with immediate NFC Contactless and QR-Code activation systems Figure 6 Safety signs positioned at eye level facilitate intergenerational communication by simplifying access to information in two different ways: Dynamic QR code: by framing the QR code shown on the safety pictogram (Figure 6) with the camera of your mobile device. The Dynamic QR Code can be reprogrammed infinite times Integrated NFC Contactless: To speed up access to information in an emergency, you can access security information by holding your device close to the NFC Contactless tag (Figure 6) on each security sign. The NFC device can be reprogrammed infinitely. Both technologies, passive NFC circuit and QR code scanning, allow the cell phone camera to open for pixel-mapped reading of the histogram associated with the display system. One of the recent AR innovations, in WEBAR format, simplifies the use of the technology without the need to download data from the internet. The connection is made directly online. Activation of multimedia content, by reading the histogram integrated into the signage: The histogram activates the information to be recalled, specific for each individual safety sign. (Figure 3-5) To better understand the operating principle and the potential uses of these signs, a direct example is provided, specifically using the specific pictogram depicting a fire extinguisher (Figures 1-2-3-4-5), one of the most common in companies of all sizes. It is well known that there are different extinguishing materials used to fill fire extinguishers, such as powder, carbon dioxide, and foam. In this case, the sign depicting the fire extinguisher, displayed in the company, thanks to its unique integration (histogram), would display information and specifications regarding its use and operation. The sign for a powder extinguisher in the workshop would carry different information than the one in the electrical substation, which uses carbon dioxide. Example of using interactive signage Figures 7 and 8 show some examples of possible multimedia content that can be activated by the signs and recalled by the unique histogram for each safety sign. In this specific example, by framing Figure 7, you can enjoy the 2D audio-video content and interactive 3D animation (move, turn, and rotate) depicting a fire extinguisher with a nozzle, reference text, and an explanatory audio track. (Figure 8) Figure 7 Figure 8 The innovative signage recalls the streaming visualization of 2D audio-video content or 3D models, step-by-step instructions, (Figure 8) unique for each histogram integrated into the signage graphics. The signage allows all company security operators to personalize information without ever changing the posted signage. also dosing it based on their work experience and their risk area. Conclusions This utility model represents a point of reference for contextualizing, memorizing, and updating basic safety concepts for the prevention of accidents at work. The histograms integrated into the innovative signage can also highlight safety activities with multilingual information. All workers can access information on company workplace safety in their native language as well as the language of the host country. The signage will remain operational in information point mode, active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year; The panels will be positioned at a height easily reachable by the worker to facilitate access to data from smartphones. The safety signage system represents a significant innovation in the field of workplace safety. It has the potential to significantly improve the management of safety information communication, employee training, and accident prevention, helping to create safer and more productive work environments for everyone.

Claims

CLAIMS Claims of the utility model patent entitled: "A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable with three reprogrammable IT accesses to speed up and contextualize safety information in the workplace. Invention filed in the name of Attilio Giovanni Pisicchio. Designated inventor: Attilio Giovanni Pisicchio.

1. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable with three reprogrammable IT accesses to speed up and contextualize safety information in the workplace. The physical IT signs become information points active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, made with materials suitable for classification by company ATECO codes. (See example in Figure 2 in the attachment) 2. A safety signage system is claimed on digitalized physical panels, customizable with three reprogrammable IT accesses as per rev. 1 with integration of passive contactless NFC technological devices, with application of Dynamic QR Code for dynamic access to emergency content and to the enabling technology of augmented reality (see Figure 6 in the description).

3. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable by three reprogrammable IT accesses as per claim 1, which provides for the creation of an integrated and unique histogram for each safety sign, capable of making it possible to associate, display, and interact with the corresponding multimedia content connected to it.

4. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable by three reprogrammable IT accesses as per rev. 1, which provides for the graphic remodulation of the minor figurative elements within the signage, capable of making the generated histogram unique for each new graphic composition, 100% efficient and usable by any augmented reality enabling technology. (See example Figures 2-3-4-5 in the attachment) 5. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable with three reprogrammable IT access points as per Rev. 1, which introduces the principle of contextualizing safety information. Indeed, at the site where the signage is installed, we can consult all information relating to general and specific company safety management for that work area based on the risk attributable to the ATECO code.

6. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable with three reprogrammable IT access points as per claim 1, in which the information is accessed via the patented signage, positioned in every possible way to be easily accessible by workers and their reading devices.

7. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable by three reprogrammable IT accesses as per claim 1, which includes interactive procedures, 2D audio video and 3D animations, which allow access to workplace safety information, in all digital formats possible for application to IT safety signage.

8. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable by three reprogrammable IT accesses as per rev. 1, which offers the possibility of positioning, viewing and interacting with informative multimedia content retrieved in streaming from the histograms integrated into the signage graphics (see examples in Figures 3 and 5 in the attachment) via enabling technologies such as augmented reality, also in WEB-AR format.

9. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable by three reprogrammable IT accesses as per rev. 1 and its procedural application referable to the safety signage indicated in the UNI EN ISO 7010:2023 standard and its amendments.

10. A safety signage system is claimed on digital physical panels, customizable with three reprogrammable IT accesses as per rev. 1, with access to safety information from each worker's personal cell phone and for both iOS and Android operating systems.