Personal protective equipment with identifying electronic chip containing details such as manufacture and expiry dates and serial number so that with an appropriate reader such data can easily be accessed by a database application

摘要

Personal protective equipment has an electronic chip (8) that contains stored information about the safety equipment such as serial number, date of manufacture, expiry date, etc. Such information can be read using a reader connected to a computer with appropriate software for processing the data. The data stored on the chip is in read only format to prevent unauthorized alteration of such data.