Design and Development of Vibration Apparatus to Study Human Body Vibration

Abstract

As there is abundance of labor, they are treated as disposable beings and their lives are not valued. This happens because on one hand, countries like Canada, England, etc. which have guidelines like the A(8) methodology for working on such machines which restrict the worker for working on a machine over a fixed amount of time but in India there are no ISO standards for how much time a labor should work on a machine so that the individual should not be harmed. So our initiative is to create an apparatus to read the vibrations that are generated by these machines and collect the data so that we can help the labor class and initiate awareness regarding this issue. We started by using a setup containing an Arduino UNO, and a Vibrational sensor. After figuring out the code and doing some tests, we found that that even at maximum sensitivity the vibrational sensor was not able to catch generated vibrations. So, we switched to accelerometers to read the vibrations. After the coding process, we had great results in terms of sensitivity achieved as our apparatus was even able to pick up a tap on the table.

Keywords: A(8) methodology, apparatus, vibrations, accelerometers, human body vibration