Safety while working alone
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:35 am
Hi,
I have a long term background task relating to the safety of programmers (me and you) working alone for significant parts of the day, during which a medical emergency could arise.
As part of this I need to detect if the computer has received a mouse or keyboard input to any application. The detection needs to be carried out by a small background task that will not cause AntiVirus software to kick off. As a guide, the monitoring interval needs to be in the order of a minute. (Probability of recovery from a stroke goes down 10% per minute without intervention.)
The same task will be checking PIR motion sensors, pinging a comms path to the first responder (to confirm a help message could be sent) and other things.
I am NOT intending to produce a safety critical item, but on the balance of probabilities I would rather have a dumb bit of software checking I'm alive and kicking rather than cooling down on the floor!
Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome...
Regards,
RichardL
I have a long term background task relating to the safety of programmers (me and you) working alone for significant parts of the day, during which a medical emergency could arise.
As part of this I need to detect if the computer has received a mouse or keyboard input to any application. The detection needs to be carried out by a small background task that will not cause AntiVirus software to kick off. As a guide, the monitoring interval needs to be in the order of a minute. (Probability of recovery from a stroke goes down 10% per minute without intervention.)
The same task will be checking PIR motion sensors, pinging a comms path to the first responder (to confirm a help message could be sent) and other things.
I am NOT intending to produce a safety critical item, but on the balance of probabilities I would rather have a dumb bit of software checking I'm alive and kicking rather than cooling down on the floor!
Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome...
Regards,
RichardL