Personal Safety Device (2004) - Concept for a crowdsourced, networked radiation detection system that was, essentially, a "smart" tag long before such a thing became commonplace.
The device, a small bit of wearable tech, operates within a user centric system by leveraging the "crowd" to ensure individual and collective safety.
It does this by effectively turning people who wear a device into a networked early warning system through the use of onboard sensors, cellular communication networks, and GPS positioning data. When radiation exposure is detected, critical information is transmitted via wireless to a data center which then sends out an alert to all devices within the vicinity of the triangulated radiation source.
This project was conceived and completed over a four day period as a submission to the July 2004 Popular Science/Core77 "Security" Design Competition.
