It could also be used in other fatigue-prone sectors such as medicine and mining.
Yep! Aviation isn't the only industry with tired workers making mistakes. How many mining accidents and incidents would have fatigue as a factor.
As for medicine. Talk to doctors and nurses who work in hospitals what shift lengths and how often they work. Recently in Qld. a hospital doctor on the Sunshine Coast was taken to court by the parents of a child who had a poor diagnosis made. The child subsequently died. The doctor when treating the child was into his 23rd hour of a 24 hour shift!!
Would we let pilots or ATCs operate the same way? Interestingly the father of the poor child was a senior administrator of Qld. Health. I wonder if he was some how responsible for that doctors long shiftwork requirements.
SmartData is in principle something to help reduce fatigue related accidents. But given our government's past track record in implementing such strategies, could the use of such devices be used in a way not originally intended?
The research was also expected to be relevant to future security systems, such as identifying people by brain activity.