INFLATER

Development of a universal flood protection tool using the force of the water to protect against floods

Coordinatore	ATEKNEA SOLUTIONS HUNGARY KFT    more  Organization address address: TETENYI UT 84-86 city: BUDAPEST postcode: 1119 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Daniel Cognome: Varga Email: send email Telefono: +36 1 787 4024 335
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Hungary [HU]
Totale costo	1˙447˙294 €
EC contributo	1˙099˙900 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2011
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-10-01   -   2014-01-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	ATEKNEA SOLUTIONS HUNGARY KFT  Organization address address: TETENYI UT 84-86 city: BUDAPEST postcode: 1119 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Daniel Cognome: Varga Email: send email Telefono: +36 1 787 4024 335	HU (BUDAPEST)	coordinator	33˙834.00
2	BUILDAIR INGENIERIA Y ARQUITECTURA SA  Organization address address: AV BARCELONA 40 city: SANT JOAN DESPI BARCELONA postcode: 8970 contact info Nome: Natalia Cognome: Alonso Email: send email Telefono: +34 93 2047083	ES (SANT JOAN DESPI BARCELONA)	participant	216˙070.00
3	X-TREME HOLDING BV  Organization address address: SMEDERIJSTRAAT 2 city: BREDA postcode: 4814 DB contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Dan Cognome: Vandevoorde Email: send email Telefono: 31765720077	NL (BREDA)	participant	216˙054.00
4	2 L'EAU PROTECTION SARL  Organization address address: KERONVEL TREGONDERN city: SAINT POL DE LEAON postcode: 29250 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Stéphane Cognome: Quéméneur Email: send email Telefono: +33 6 82 32 3459 Fax: +33 9 70 06 42 46	FR (SAINT POL DE LEAON)	participant	188˙855.00
5	FORDAM GAZDASAGI TANACSADO KFT  Organization address address: KELETI KAROLY UTCA 27 city: BUDAPEST postcode: 1024 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: George Cognome: Forbat Email: send email Telefono: +45 43 543554	HU (BUDAPEST)	participant	186˙503.00
6	TAUSEC SRO  Organization address address: TREBISOVSKA 1 city: KOSICE postcode: 040 11 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Jan Cognome: Pavlisko Email: send email Telefono: +421 903 81 95 98	SK (KOSICE)	participant	166˙501.00
7	DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL  Organization address address: WOOD QUAY CIVIC OFFICES city: DUBLIN postcode: Dublin 8 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Gerard Cognome: O'connell Email: send email Telefono: +353 1 2224302 Fax: +353 1 4546435	IE (DUBLIN)	participant	49˙791.00
8	LABOR S.R.L.  Organization address address: via della Scrofa 117 city: ROMA postcode: 186 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Cristina Cognome: Torrisi Email: send email Telefono: +39 0640040354	IT (ROMA)	participant	28˙195.00
9	BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM  Organization address address: MUEGYETEM RAKPART 3 city: BUDAPEST postcode: 1111 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tamás Cognome: Huszák Email: send email Telefono: +36 1 463 3004	HU (BUDAPEST)	participant	14˙097.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The flooding of rivers has always been a problem, and thanks to advances in civil engineering humans learnt of methods to keep the river in its bed. In urban areas especially, but in rural areas as well, embankments have been built to keep the river where it belongs. Unfortunately even with embankments flooding occurs as we can see it all over Europe and the World. Due to global warming flooding is becoming more and more common and the water level is getting so high that the presently built embankments cannot cope. At present people use sandbags as the main protection against flooding. The advantage of sandbags is that it is cheap and sand is widely available, but it requires a lot of manpower to fill and place the bags.. The idea of this project would be to design and build a portable dam, which can be placed anywhere quickly, easily and does not require much manpower. The project would be broken down onto two main sections. The first section includes the mechanical part, which involves the design of the inflatable section. The second section involves the electrical sensor part and wireless communication. The construction consists of three parts, the floating top section and the inflatable section with a skirt secured by fixing spikes and supporting strings.. The inflatable section is connected to the skirt and secured to the grown with support strings and spikes. As the water level rises it lifts the floating part and the water is let inside the inflatable section. As the inflatable part is filled the strings go tight to support the structure. To aid the mechanical design, electrical sensors can be introduced. The sensors can be used so INFLATER can monitor itself and the river. INFLATER needs to monitor itself so it can warn if it fails or the water level gets too high It also monitors the river to help predict its behaviour and send warnings to the surrounding areas via wireless communication to help avoid a tragedy.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU project developed an inflatable dam to hold back flood waters. Results from the testing of three prototypes successfully demonstrated the principle of the automatic and portable device as a flood protection tool.