  PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) has allowed firefighters to perform their
everyday tasks without getting harmed since the mid 1800s. Now, the advancement
of technology has given rise to the improvements of PPE. PPE can now include
sensors to detect any number of environmental hazards (chemical, biological,
temperature etc.). As the GT class of CS3750, we have decided to create a
version of an interface design sensor that will help firefighters in two ways:
navigation and communication. In order to augment a firefighter display when
they are within a building, we chose to augment their SCBA (self-contained
breathing apparatus). The gas mask will include a small screen that displays
vital information directly towards the firefighter without need of any other
support. We used the Google Glass to display vital information directly towards
the eye in a minimalistic manner, while also augmenting that by adding LED
lights to simulate someone calling their name or other auditory signals.While
our prototype focuses on two main components of a firefighters search and
rescue in a building, both of them combine to augment a firefighters display
when searching throughout a building to help improve accuracy, speed and
overall experience.
