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Heart and respiration in-car embedded nonintrusive sensors
| Coordinatore | BORGSTENA GROUP PORTUGAL LDA
Organization address
address: ESTRADA NACIONAL 234 KM 87 7 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Portugal [PT] |
| Totale costo | 1˙360˙045 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙053˙061 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-06-01 - 2014-05-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
BORGSTENA GROUP PORTUGAL LDA
Organization address
address: ESTRADA NACIONAL 234 KM 87 7 contact info |
PT (NELAS) | coordinator | 503˙133.00 |
| 2 |
SENSING TEX S.L.
Organization address
address: Passeig Fabra i Puig 474 contact info |
ES (Barcelona) | participant | 219˙829.00 |
| 3 |
ALATEX GmbH
Organization address
address: GUSTAV WAYSS STRASSE 32 contact info |
DE (EMSDETTEN) | participant | 188˙974.00 |
| 4 |
PLUX - WIRELESS BIOSIGNALS S.A.
Organization address
address: "ZONA INDUSTRIAL DAS CORREDOURAS, LOTE 14 1 ANDAR" contact info |
PT (ARRUDA DOS VINHOS) | participant | 63˙596.00 |
| 5 |
FICOMIRRORS SA
Organization address
address: GRAN VIA DE CARLES III 98 contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 27˙466.00 |
| 6 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Organization address
address: OXFORD ROAD contact info |
UK (MANCHESTER) | participant | 17˙332.00 |
| 7 |
OSAUHING EESTI INNOVATSIOONI INSTITUUT
Organization address
address: SEPAPAJA 6 contact info |
EE (TALLINN) | participant | 16˙667.00 |
| 8 |
INSTITUTO DE BIOMECANICA DE VALENCIA
Organization address
address: UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA EDIFICIO 9C CAMINO DE VERA S/N contact info |
ES (VALENCIA) | participant | 16˙064.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'Road accidents are a major safety problem in developed countries, and fatigue is one of the critical factors. In-vehicle fatigue detectors can reduce this problem, saving 4,000 lives and preventing tens of thousand injuries every year in the EU, which in economical terms would imply annual savings of €7 Billion. For this reason, automotive OEM and TIER 1 are striving to achieve good solutions for automatic fatigue detection, but current approaches have strong limitations, because they lack the direct information about drivers’ physiological variables, which are critical for a successful evaluation of their state. This project gathers a consortium of SMEs that produce vehicle components (seat cover textiles and safety belts), smart materials, and sensors for biomonitoring, who will create a product to address that need. They will join their experience to create a nonintrusive sensor system of heart and respiration with smart materials, embedded in the seat cover and the safety belt of a car. This device will detect the effect of heart and respiration activity, filter and cancel the noise and artefacts expected in a moving vehicle, and calculate the relevant parameters, which will be delivered in a readable format to integrate it in a fatigue detector. The achievement of this objective will require to perform a research to develop new sensing materials, and create a signal processing unit to filter and process the data. This project will provide the SMEs with new, high technology products to sell in their sectors, and will help them to enter or improve their position in the automotive market, with a new device that will enable the creation of reliable fatigue detectors.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Driver fatigue is a significant factor in the road death toll. An EU initiative developed a new system of fabric-based sensors that monitor drivers' biosigns to warn of danger.