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 Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator INDUSTRIAS TOBIA S.A. Address Calleja vieja 62-64 26080 Logroño Spain See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Fernando Tobia (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window EU contribution € 317 629,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all LINCIS SOLUCOES INTEGRADAS PARA SISTEMAS DE INFORMACAO LDA Portugal EU contribution € 74 735,00 Address Av senhor da paciencia 36 b 4705-448 Braga See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Adelino Silva (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window FOS FASEROPTISCHE SYSTEME MESSTECHNIK GMBH Germany EU contribution € 370 538,00 Address Rutgersstrasse 40 40 24790 Schacht audorf See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Erhard Giese (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window PROTEO S.P.A. Italy EU contribution € 111 703,00 Address Via santa sofia 65 95129 Catania (ct) See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Roberto Gueli (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window DYNAMIC MOTION SA Switzerland EU contribution € 167 414,00 Address Rue fritz courvoisier 105 2300 La chaux de fonds See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Bernard Vaucher (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window BP Techem SA Poland EU contribution € 33 106,00 Address Ludwinowska street 17 02856 Warszawa See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ewa Lada (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window QINETIQ LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 15 716,00 Address Cody technology park ively road GU14 0LX Farnborough See on map Region South East (England) Hampshire and Isle of Wight North Hampshire Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Simon Brian Dodd (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL Spain EU contribution € 7 804,00 Address Calle manuel tovar 49 28034 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alfredo Sanchez (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window FUNDACION RIOJA SALUD-FRS Spain EU contribution € 15 771,00 Address Calle piqueras 98 26006 Logrono See on map Region Noreste La Rioja La Rioja Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Javier De Juan (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window VIVISOL Srl Italy EU contribution € 36 072,00 Address Via gerolamo borgazzi 27 20052 Monza See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Christian Quaggia (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window
