EPOSBED

Easy positioning of in-bed patients with reduced mobility

Coordinatore	INDUSTRIAS TOBIA S.A.    more  Organization address address: Calleja Vieja 62-64 postcode: 26080 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Fernando Cognome: Tobia Email: send email Telefono: +34 941 21 12 96 Fax: +34 941 21 14 44
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Spain [ES]
Sito del progetto	http://www.eposbed.com/
Totale costo	1˙484˙599 €
EC contributo	1˙150˙488 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2007-1
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-07-01   -   2010-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	INDUSTRIAS TOBIA S.A.	ES	coordinator	0.00
2	BP Techem SA  Organization address address: Ludwinowska street 17 city: Warszawa postcode: 2856 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Ewa Cognome: Lada Email: send email Telefono: 48 22 4896 515 Fax: 48 22 4896 555	PL (Warszawa)	participant	0.00
3	DYNAMIC MOTION SA  Organization address address: Rue Fritz Courvoisier 105 city: La Chaux de Fonds postcode: 2300 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Bernard Cognome: Vaucher Email: send email Telefono: 41329686454 Fax: 41329686451	CH (La Chaux de Fonds)	participant	0.00
4	FOS FASEROPTISCHE SYSTEME MESSTECHNIK GMBH  Organization address address: RUTGERSSTRASSE 40 city: SCHACHT AUDORF postcode: 24790 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Erhard Cognome: Giese Email: send email Telefono: 00 49 43319065 Fax: 00 49 43319065	DE (SCHACHT AUDORF)	participant	0.00
5	FUNDACION RIOJA SALUD  Organization address address: Av Viana 1 city: Logrono postcode: 26001 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Javier Cognome: De Juan Email: send email Telefono: -279773 Fax: +34 941278887	ES (Logrono)	participant	0.00
6	LINCIS SOLUCOES INTEGRADAS PARA SISTEMAS DE INFORMACAO LDA  Organization address address: Av Senhor Da Paciencia 36 B city: BRAGA postcode: 4705-448 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Adelino Cognome: Silva Email: send email Telefono: +351 253671247 Fax: +351 253002747	PT (BRAGA)	participant	0.00
7	PROTEO S.P.A.  Organization address address: VIA SANTA SOFIA 65 city: CATANIA (CT) postcode: 95129 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Roberto Cognome: Gueli Email: send email Telefono: +39 095 7144 373 Fax: +39 095 7144374	IT (CATANIA (CT))	participant	0.00
8	QINETIQ LIMITED  Organization address address: CODY TECHNOLOGY PARK IVELY ROAD city: LONDON postcode: SW1E 6PD contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Simon Brian Cognome: Dodd Email: send email Telefono: 00 44 1252 392846 Fax: +44 1252 397298	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00
9	TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL  Organization address address: CALLE MIGUEL VILLANUEVA 2 6 PISO PUERTA 3 city: LOGRONO postcode: 26001 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Alfredo Cognome: Sanchez Email: send email Telefono: +34 91-4170457 Fax: +34 91 556 34 15	ES (LOGRONO)	participant	0.00
10	VIVISOL Srl  Organization address address: Via Gerolamo Borgazzi 27 city: Monza postcode: 20052 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Christian Cognome: Quaggia Email: send email Telefono: 39 0392396411 Fax: 39 039 2396392	IT (Monza)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The Need The in-bed positioning of patients with limited mobility is of major importance in order to prevent the worsening of their health condition and improve their comfort. The lack of autonomy to undertake basic movements and postural changes causes anguish and discomfort in these patients. Nowadays, nurses need to change manually the position of patients every 2 to 4 hours. The manual handling of patients is reported to cause an outstanding amount of work-related back injuries, with 85% of nurses suffering back injury at some point in their career. These injuries account for 15 billion lost working days each year, bringing annual cost of approximately €6billion to the European hospitals. The Market Revenues in the hospital specialty beds market reached approximately €800 million in Europe in 2005, with an annual growth rate of 9% as a consequence of the population aging. Despite the existing mentioned strong demand for a system enabling patients improved mobility, there is not a satisfactory product in the market. The aim of this project is to enable European SMEs to either enter or strengthen their competitive positioning in the specialty bed market by working together with world class RTD performers in the development of new technology that fills unmet market needs. The Solution Our project aims to design and validate a specialty bed with a positioning functionality that allows patients with limited mobility to change their position in bed without need of assistance from hospital personnel. An actuator system will change the bed configuration in order to assist comfortable lateral rotation and sitting positions. To facilitate that elderly people can use the assistive system, an intuitive user interface will be implemented based in an intelligent sensing system that interprets the movement intended by the patient and activate a servo-actuator system accordingly. This system avoids the need of remote controllers, ensuring autonomy for elderly patients'