Abstract:

Central infrastructure systems such as communications, energy, transport and health services are critical infrastructure for countries. The conditions of fatigue of the operators who provide management of these systems are extremely important. In particular, a short-term fluctuation or negligence of the central SCADA system operators may cause a serious incident or alarm to be overlooked. However, in critical infrastructures, such events often require immediate intervention. Therefore, in the study, an alarm and warning system is developed that is active when the operator shows behaviors such as sleep, fatigue and negligence. For this purpose, real-time images taken from the camera placed in front of the operator are processed by image processing techniques. As a software tool, the OpenCV library, which is widely used in image processing applications, has been preferred. The proposed technique is estimated to contribute to literature as a simple and effective methodological approach to minimizing human-based operating errors. In addition, the developed ideological approach and method can be easily adapted to many different areas and infrastructure.

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