Photometric measurement
Quantifying the luminous output of powered wearable devices at real distances, under real conditions, rather than at the bench.
Kingston Automation LLC is the research and development arm behind Night Moves Safety Solutions. We study how light behaves on people who work in darkness, and we build the test methods that make visibility a number instead of an opinion.
Quantifying the luminous output of powered wearable devices at real distances, under real conditions, rather than at the bench.
Designing repeatable protocols for detection and recognition distance, so two products can be compared honestly.
Mapping measured performance against existing high visibility standards, and identifying where those standards are silent on powered light.
Conventional high visibility clothing is passive. It returns light that someone else provides. When there is no light to return, it does very little, and the person wearing it stays effectively invisible.
Active light changes the physics, but not the burden of proof. A device that emits light still has to demonstrate that a driver sees a worker in time to stop. That is a measurement problem before it is a design problem, and it is the problem this company exists to solve.
Figures drawn from public roadway safety reporting and cited in our research materials.
Kingston Automation is preparing a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research application to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, focused on the measured visibility performance of powered light emitting devices worn by workers.
We are also the owner of all Night Moves product and brand intellectual property. Night Moves is the commercial arm. Kingston is the laboratory.
We are seeking a principal investigator with depth in worker safety, photometry of wearable devices, or human factors under low light conditions.
Federal rules require the principal investigator to be primarily employed by the applicant company for the project period, so this is an employment relationship rather than a consulting engagement. Retired, separating, and recently separated candidates are welcome.
Send a CV to mark@mykingston.io with the subject line Principal Investigator.