Objetivo
Each year 2,8 million patients are infected while receiving treatment in European hospitals, these are referred to as nosocomial infections. These nosocomial infections cause patients to incur other illnesses and making treatment more complex. To the patient, hospital infections means a prolonged stay and more suffering at the hospital, and may also lead to permanent health damage or death. While statistics indicate many major causes of death are now decreasing, hospital infection deaths have doubled in 40 years. It is estimated that at least 10.000 people die from hospital infections in EU annually. International studies show that high intensity surveillance and infection control program can reduce the prevalence of hospital infections. Hence; high intensity surveillance and infection control programme with high focus on hand sanitation represents a potential for a 30 % reduction in hospital infections. The Community Network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases, established by the European Parliament and Council Decision 2119/98/EC is an example of the EU focus on hospital infections. Our project also contributes to the basis for EU objectives and actions with respect to combating hospital infections (Article 152 -ex Article 129). Despite there are no commercial Automatic Hand Sanitizers the market is estimated the potential annual global market for sale of apparatus' and sanitizing liquids at + 1,6Bn giving an EU market of +783m pa. Assuming a modest market penetration of 3% in EU and 2% globally and also including the health care sector outside the Hospital market segment, the potential market for the AHS is +310m pa. The objective of this project is to develop an Automatic Hand Sanitizer (AHS) that disinfects hands of nurses, doctors, staff, patients and visitors in Hospitals within 5 seconds, cost efficiently ensuring repeatable, reliable and high-quality hand disinfection, independent of the users behavior, encoura
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologyradio frequency
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencecomputer vision
- engineering and technologynanotechnology