EPOSBED
Easy positioning of in-bed patients with reduced mobility
| Coordinatore | INDUSTRIAS TOBIA S.A.
Organization address
address: Calleja Vieja 62-64 contact info |
| 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
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INDUSTRIAS TOBIA S.A. | ES | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
BP Techem SA
Organization address
address: Ludwinowska street 17 contact info |
PL (Warszawa) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
DYNAMIC MOTION SA
Organization address
address: Rue Fritz Courvoisier 105 contact info |
CH (La Chaux de Fonds) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
FOS FASEROPTISCHE SYSTEME MESSTECHNIK GMBH
Organization address
address: RUTGERSSTRASSE 40 contact info |
DE (SCHACHT AUDORF) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
FUNDACION RIOJA SALUD
Organization address
address: Av Viana 1 contact info |
ES (Logrono) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
LINCIS SOLUCOES INTEGRADAS PARA SISTEMAS DE INFORMACAO LDA
Organization address
address: Av Senhor Da Paciencia 36 B contact info |
PT (BRAGA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
PROTEO S.P.A.
Organization address
address: VIA SANTA SOFIA 65 contact info |
IT (CATANIA (CT)) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
QINETIQ LIMITED
Organization address
address: CODY TECHNOLOGY PARK IVELY ROAD contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL
Organization address
address: CALLE MIGUEL VILLANUEVA 2 6 PISO PUERTA 3 contact info |
ES (LOGRONO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
VIVISOL Srl
Organization address
address: Via Gerolamo Borgazzi 27 contact info |
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'