I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 492 - 490: Insufficient Industrial Capacity

Enlightened by Mo Qingyan, Chen Xin quickly completed the concept of the health wristband.

This thing is not complicated to make. Even before the meteorite fell, there were already mature products on the market; all Chen Xin needed to do was slightly improve them.

At its core, this wristband is merely a sensor patch and a computing chip. The sensor patch detects bodily data like heartbeat and temperature, while the chip processes the detected data to compute and assess your health status.

As for the alarm function, it only requires a preset value in the chip; when the monitored data deviates from this value, the chip will automatically alert without the need for additional operations.

The only issue is the lack of widespread network signals covering every corner like before, so the wristband’s alarm function is only effective within the shelter.

However, this problem is not significant. Chen Xin’s main goal is to monitor the health status of the people within the shelter and to check if there are health issues among those who enter or exit. As long as it can provide timely alerts within the shelter, the wristband will have served its purpose.

Regarding viral transmission through the movement of people, this problem is not entirely unavoidable.

The Protective Suit designed by Chen Xin earlier has the ability to block viruses. After all, the entire suit is designed to be fully enclosed, relying on an air filtration module to filter external air and block harmful substances. As long as one is wearing the Protective Suit, there is no risk of infection.

Although Protective Suits are constrained by production capacity, even with the country’s vigorous promotion, it cannot yet ensure one for everyone. It can only meet the needs of outdoor work, but overall, it is still sufficient.

So, as long as everyone is equipped with a health wristband to monitor their health status, and proper protection is taken during outdoor work, theoretically, epidemic prevention should not have major issues.

However, when Chen Xin created the wristband and mentioned this to other researchers in the laboratory, they were not optimistic about it.

"Academician Chen, your idea is good, but..." One researcher hesitated a bit before saying, "The country probably doesn’t have enough production capacity for this so-called health wristband, right?"

"The country’s production capacity is insufficient?" Chen Xin furrowed his brow. While he knew that resources were tight, it shouldn’t be to the extent that they couldn’t even make a small wristband.

Chen Xin asked the researcher his question with a frown, to which the researcher could only respond helplessly: "Of course, the country can make a small wristband, but Academician Chen, your designed health wristband is presumably intended for everyone nationwide, right?

The country’s main industrial capacity is currently focused on supporting the reconstruction of the Southwest Region. Producing a batch of health wristbands in small quantities is certainly possible, but achieving one for everyone... Until the Southwest Region’s reconstruction is completed, it’s unlikely that we can free up such large capacity."

"What about producing them batch by batch? Surely, we can’t stop doing it just because of limited capacity?" Chen Xin asked with a frown.

In Chen Xin’s view, this is a preventive system to prepare for possible epidemic spread, and it is imperative to establish it. If such a task is neglected simply due to limited capacity, he finds it unacceptable.

Upon hearing Chen Xin mention small-batch production, the researcher nodded: "That’s not a problem, producing a batch of wristbands can still be done. But exactly how many can be produced depends on the country’s resource allocation."

This reflects the current situation, where all industrial capacities are allocated by the state, as if we’ve reverted to a planned economy era.

And it’s a necessity; in the current scenario, pursuing market competition would only waste precious resources and capacity, failing to utilize limited resources to the fullest.

National allocation ensures resources are deployed where they are urgently needed, in a more comprehensive and planned manner.

Chen Xin is also aware of the country’s resource constraints. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have developed the Titans, which consume vast resources, to be used in mining and other industrial productions to replace manpower for higher productivity.

Unbeknownst to him, the Titans, designed as industrial machines, were first deployed in disaster recovery before being applied to industrial production.

However, it has to be said that the Titans have excellent applicability. As feedback from disaster areas indicates, the Titans played a significant role in reconstruction efforts. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

This led Chen Xin to seriously consider whether to design a disaster-relief-specific model in the subsequent development of Titan models.

Of course, this idea can only be considered a plan for now. All Titans except for Qin Lan’s unit are still in disaster areas, so even if new models are to be developed, it is better to wait until these units return to collect and analyze data for further development.

After all, Chen Xin’s current Titans are based on in-game materials and the creative ideas of researchers during the development stage.

Thus, identifying their shortcomings or looking for design aspects worth promoting to other models, as well as determining which aspects of specialized models need to be further specialized, all require empirical data for improvements.

However, considering the current practical needs for Titans, Chen Xin believes that the priority for subsequent development should be mining, industrial, and disaster-relief models.

The reason for considering the development of these three models is mainly because of what the researcher just mentioned.

The country’s industrial capacity is insufficient, not only due to the previous meteorite fall causing massive factory and equipment losses but also because of raw material shortages.

After the disaster, the original production capacity for industrial raw materials suffered significant impacts. For items like crude oil, coal, metal ores, and non-metal ores, thanks to Flame Country’s vast resources, although greatly affected, they still sustain domestic production to meet industrial needs.

However, agricultural products like timber, natural rubber, and raw cotton were severely impacted, with many items experiencing irrecoverable or short-term irrecoverable damage, greatly affecting industrial production.

Although modern technology gradually reduces reliance on agricultural raw materials by using chemically synthesized alternatives, the similar impact on chemical production capacity makes this aspect bleak as well.

In such a situation, enhancing raw material production capacity and increasing industrial efficiency would significantly promote the recovery of overall industrial capacity.