US meat companies JBS and Tyson Foods have invested in an artificial intelligence app for smartwatches to track employee movements. Writes about it Investigate Midwest.
The developer of the tool, Mentore, claims that the system uses surveillance data and AI technologies to increase worker efficiency and reduce injury rates in the workplace.
Once paired with a compatible smartwatch, the app uses sensors to collect information about the strength, rotation, speed, and direction of movement of a person’s hand during monotonous operations. After analyzing the data, the system determines the level of safety of these actions and warns the employee if he does everything too quickly or applies too much force.
Startup co-founder Apoorva Kiran said the tool can also detect dehydration.
The application then converts the raw data into visible metrics in real time. supervisors on the information panel.
Perhaps Mentore intends to combat the uncertainty and transparency issues around the tool by giving staff access to their current and past “injury risk” scores. However, it is not clear whether employees can do anything directly on the smartwatch to challenge this information.
The app can also distinguish between intense and moderate active movements. According to the site Mentorethe collection of this kind of data will allow “to improve performance and security in real time.”
Due to constant fast and repetitive work, meat processing plants are some of the most dangerous jobs in the US. Employees often get injuries of varying severity from routine and overexertion, including limb amputations.
Executive director of the organization Venceremos Magali Licolli that many of her clients who have worked for Tyson Foods are well aware of the dangers associated with performance requirements at the plant.
“Everything introduced at the meat processing plant benefits the enterprise itself, and not the staff. Now companies are using technology to monitor employees to see how much more they can take on their shoulders,” she said.
According to the publication, the application has already been installed on about 10,000 devices in five industries in Canada, the United States, Chile and Japan.
“In addition to surveillance and invasion of privacy, there is a real safety and health issue,” said Mark Lauritsen, International Vice President of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).
Requiring employees to wear watches or other jewelry is a violation of health and safety regulations, he said, and could lead to workplace injury and product spoilage.
Lauritsen also added that if staff are forced to use Mentore app devices in factories under UFCW jurisdiction, they will resist.
“We will not let management’s need for more money and productivity endanger people’s lives and health,” he said.
Recall that in October, the gaming giant Caesars Entertainment and the REIT corporation SL Green Realty proposed to deploy surveillance drones and install AI cameras in Times Square.
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US meat companies JBS and Tyson Foods have invested in an artificial intelligence app for smartwatches to track employee movements. Writes about it Investigate Midwest.
The developer of the tool, Mentore, claims that the system uses surveillance data and AI technologies to increase worker efficiency and reduce injury rates in the workplace.
Once paired with a compatible smartwatch, the app uses sensors to collect information about the strength, rotation, speed, and direction of movement of a person’s hand during monotonous operations. After analyzing the data, the system determines the level of safety of these actions and warns the employee if he does everything too quickly or applies too much force.
Startup co-founder Apoorva Kiran said the tool can also detect dehydration.
The application then converts the raw data into visible metrics in real time. supervisors on the information panel.
Perhaps Mentore intends to combat the uncertainty and transparency issues around the tool by giving staff access to their current and past “injury risk” scores. However, it is not clear whether employees can do anything directly on the smartwatch to challenge this information.
The app can also distinguish between intense and moderate active movements. According to the site Mentorethe collection of this kind of data will allow “to improve performance and security in real time.”
Due to constant fast and repetitive work, meat processing plants are some of the most dangerous jobs in the US. Employees often get injuries of varying severity from routine and overexertion, including limb amputations.
Executive director of the organization Venceremos Magali Licolli that many of her clients who have worked for Tyson Foods are well aware of the dangers associated with performance requirements at the plant.
“Everything introduced at the meat processing plant benefits the enterprise itself, and not the staff. Now companies are using technology to monitor employees to see how much more they can take on their shoulders,” she said.
According to the publication, the application has already been installed on about 10,000 devices in five industries in Canada, the United States, Chile and Japan.
“In addition to surveillance and invasion of privacy, there is a real safety and health issue,” said Mark Lauritsen, International Vice President of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).
Requiring employees to wear watches or other jewelry is a violation of health and safety regulations, he said, and could lead to workplace injury and product spoilage.
Lauritsen also added that if staff are forced to use Mentore app devices in factories under UFCW jurisdiction, they will resist.
“We will not let management’s need for more money and productivity endanger people’s lives and health,” he said.
Recall that in October, the gaming giant Caesars Entertainment and the REIT corporation SL Green Realty proposed to deploy surveillance drones and install AI cameras in Times Square.
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