Student-Designed Lifejacket With Built-in Tracking System Unveiled

A draft prototype of a smart lifejacket designed for people working in the marine industry was recently unveiled at the University of New Brunswick’s Engineering Design Symposium. The LifeTrack Outlast lifejacket, which is an automatically inflating, low-profile life vest with a built-in tracking device, was designed by fourth-year engineering students Amy Andrews, Bridget McCloskey, Kaitlin MacIsaac and Phoenix Bard-Cavers through UNB’s Technology Management and Entrepreneurship (TME) ...