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There are three ways to solve the sleep disorder problem: 1)      End nightshift work. 2)      Test employees by questions and interviews to analyze their habits and experiences.  3)      Monitor employees experiences technologically. The “Silver Bullet” or “SmartCap” device is approach #3.  It monitors the internal indicators of wakefulness and fatigue that may not be apparent even to the person being monitored.  A locomotive alerter produces a signal that a person must react to in order to prove wakefulness.  A SmartCap monitor determines directly whether a person is awake.  An alerter must sample wakefulness frequently because trouble can develop quickly if a person is asleep.  The frequent sampling requires an easy reset response in order to keep the routine reasonably unwieldy.  The easy reset response means that a person can perform it almost in their sleep.  It has been found that the alerter can be reset in a state so close to total sleep that it permits total sleep during the interval between resets, thus defeating the purpose of the alerter.  As long as the alerter is reset and no accidents occur, the engineer is assumed to be awake, even though possibly suffering from a serious sleep disorder and running a high risk of having an accident.  But with the SmartCap device monitoring brain function, any incident of falling asleep will be transmitted and recorded as part of the employee record.  It will quickly reveal who has a sleep disorder and who does not.  So it does not just prevent falling asleep (although it can do that too), but rather, it diagnoses the sleep disorder syndrome.  And from that point, the person found to have the syndrome can either be treated or reassigned.
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