By now, you've probably heard about the new wearables' craze. In fact, many of you probably wear a FitBit or know someone with an Apple Watch - some of you may have even seen Google's stupid and pointless Google Glass. But, what you may not know is that wearable technology could play a vital role in the future of health and safety on a construction site. In the US alone, the wearable market is anticipated to be worth some $30 billion by 2018. This has stoked competition in all sectors of the market, but perhaps the most interesting is industrial. Industrial wearables [IWs] can be broken into several categories - safety devices [e.g. wristbands with inbuilt GPS trackers], health trackers [e.g. heart rate and blood pressure monitors], communications devices and security solutions.
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