According to the International Labour Organisation – ILO , more than 2.3 million worker dies from a work-related accident every year. The economic burden of poor occupational safety and health practices is estimated at 4% of global GDP.
The 4.0 Industry is an environment where there are more and more vehicles without drivers, robots and machines it is necessary that people can share the place in a safe and healthy way. Therefore, the 4.0 Industry needs more security, which can be provided by our innovative approach.
Today, the main technological challenge our customers face is to design a protection and positioning system that is precise, reliable, adaptable, low-cost and low intrusive. CLAITEC is driven to answer these needs, overcoming technical limitations that RFID systems has After 3 years of development, we characterised our own IR-Ultra-Wide Band technology including distance calculation algorithms to use as the basis of the products in development.
Our location system aims to warn/intervene drivers of vehicles when a risk situation occur (pedestrian run over, vehicle collision). The broadband of coverage ranges from 0.2 to 30 meters with an accuracy of 10cm.
Willingness-to-pay is driven by two main factors: The cost of an accident / Legal obligations.
We seized the opportunity offered by the SME instrument Phase1 to perform an in-depth market study on the early adopters (logistics, construction, recycling, agriculture, manufacturing, and mining) followed by a geographical market analysis. At CLAITEC we have identified process constraints for the prototype industrialisation. The feasibility study carried addressed a financial plan, foreseeing the all costs and investments associated with commercialising the product and its expected revenues forecasted at 5-years. The study included the assessment of legal aspects such as i) product certification according to European/Foreign legislation, and ii) patenting strategy consolidation. All these activities converged into a detailed business plan that first, confirmed our hypotheses about business potential, and that most importantly paved the way towards the commercialization of SAFETY 4.0.
