How often do you think about how much power the device you use gives you? Electricity is an innovation that we take for granted, but it has an interesting and controversial past, and for the first time in history it will undergo major changes. Everything we do depends on electricity, and our dependence on it is only getting stronger. Ensuring sufficient power supply to a wide range of smart devices for Industry 5.0 and the evolutionary transition to Society 5.0 (S5.0) will require smarter energy consumption and energy harvesting through the use of energy management and new energy harvesting and distribution methods. 

Industrial Smart Wearable (ISW) is essential to Industry 5.0 since the human worker will play an ever-more essential role in value creation under this paradigm. The proliferation of more intelligent and advanced industrial wearables would allow workers to perform their tasks safer, faster, and more productively. There is a diverse and growing range of emerging ISW available to businesses, which offer various functionalities in line with Industry 5.0 objectives. Bio-inspired protective gears and exoskeletons can improve industrial workers’ capabilities, strength, productivity, and stability. Head-worn ISWs can enhance human operators’ navigation and information-sharing capabilities, whereas clothing ISWs can use conductive or optical sensors to monitor and track the vitals of the workforce. Experts even pursue embedded tracking ISW that monitors workers’ mental and physical strain and stress. Within the Industry 5.0 context, ISW operates under C-CCP and relies on CAI and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to communicate and interact with other facilitating and emerging technologies such as 3D printers, adaptive-collaborative bots, and autonomous vehicles. Various types of batteries, accumulators and fuel cells are suitable for Industrial Smart Wearable (ISW).

WEARABLE Ex BATTERY  project is under development