Safety · IoT

POB Connect

Personnel on-board connect system allowing instant localization and more efficient rescue team management, designed to keep safety and operational clarity working hand in hand during emergency situations.

Prototype video

System walkthrough

External video embed for the POB Connect prototype.

Project description

POB Connect began at a very early stage with business goals and technical requirements already defined for an IoT-based safety service.
The core gap was not technology, but understanding how customers and rescue personnel would perceive, trust, and use the system in high-pressure environments.
I led the front-end collaboration with a development team in Ukraine while shaping the customer-facing product direction.
My work focused on customer interviews on oil rigs and fishing vessels, journey mapping, interface sketching, and planning usability tests around real rescue workflows.

Approach

Worked with domain experts and employees from the oil and fishing industries to understand the mental models already used during emergency rescue operations.
Studied how rescue managers relied on traditional boards and indicators to localize personnel on board and coordinate crisis response.
Translated those insights into a user interface that prioritized clarity, simplicity, and rapid comprehension under stress, then iterated wireframes with experts and customers.
Built an MVP with the offsite front-end team and tested the first prototype using wireless sensors and nodes on the customer vessel North Sea Giant.

Jun-Dec 2019

Assignment period covering discovery, prototyping, and early prototype testing.

Crisis-first UX

Interface decisions were optimized for emergency use where speed, accuracy, and low cognitive load mattered most.

MVP + sensors

Prototype combined front-end workflows with wireless sensing hardware for realistic field validation.

“For rescue management systems, adding more features is rarely the point. Accuracy, usability, and lower cognitive demand are what make the product truly useful in crisis.”