Fire Fighters And Data Delivery Pills

We all no the important job our fire fighters perform.  It also take someone pretty special to be able to perform this  job, the horrors they must see and have to live with would seriously effect the rest in a bad way.  I guess they know if they are doing the job properly if they dont catch on fire, but what about the rest of their health.  Enter data delivery pills!!!

In a trial executed in Australia, 50 firefighters got dressed up in their normal protective gear but took one extra precaution: they each swallowed a little computer-in-a-pill transmitter—the Equivital EQ02 Life Monitor—that would keep track of their internal temperature and beam it back out for monitoring. The pills kept track of skin temperature, heart and respiration rates, and core body temperature, and beamed all that info out to an external computer. The idea is that if any of those readings spike too quickly, the firefighter in question can be pulled for a literal “cool-down” before anything bad happens.

Because of the amount of adrenaline in the their systems and all kinds of other distractions, firefighters are very vulnerable to heat stress, dehydration, collapse, and even cardiac arrest if they aren’t careful, and it helps to have hard data and someone on the outside looking out for them.

Because these pills performed so well in this trial, I think they will be come a common factor to our fire fighters, and others who have to perform under the same kind of conditions.  The data delivery pills are apparently expelled from the body through normal bodily functions.