Smart & Autonomous Guidance System for Citizen Security in Public Transport and large facilities

Project Information

IMPLAGUIDE

Grant agreement ID: 816562

DOI

10.3030/816562

Project closed

EC signature date 9 July 2018

Start date 1 May 2018

End date 31 August 2018

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Total cost

€ 71 429,00

EU contribution

€ 50 000,00

Coordinated by

IMPLASER 99 SLL
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - IMPLAGUIDE (Smart & Autonomous Guidance System for Citizen Security in Public Transport and large facilities)

Reporting period: 2018-05-01 to 2018-08-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

IMPLASER 99 S.L. is a Spanish company dedicated to industrial and safety signage for a wide range of sectors such as building, industrial design, road tunnels or railway stations. Since 2014 we have been developing IMPLAGUIDE, a disruptive smart safety signage system which provides enhanced accessibility, live location and personalized guidance for evacuation in emergencies, useful to all users, but especially to those with certain disabilities. It is an advanced and robust monitoring tool for control points within any space which also guarantees safety to all the professionals in the premises as it detects agglomerations or entries in forbidden areas in real time. IMPLAGUIDE will target Metro station operators and Commercial centers as their main clients, both in Europe and in Latin America. IMPLAGUIDE is at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 stage of development. The overall aim of the project is to take it to TRL9 and to market launch by 2021.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

In this Feasibility Study, we have analyzed the implementation of IMPLAGUIDE. We have carried out research and analyses concerning various fields: 1) technical plan, 2) FTO analysis, 3) Commercial analysis, 4) Financial feasibility.
Among the objectives achieved we can highlight: analysis of the current state of development of our IMPLAGUIDE and the required future improvements, a deeper knowledge of the market needs and the competitors within it; the potential of our IMPLAGUIDE, both technical and commercial; the business plan to be followed to reach the market in the next 24 months.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

Competing technologies in the market are either based on guidance systems without signage or conventional signage lacking guidance for the user. None of the current solutions are able to offer an integral solution directly addressing the customer´s needs in emergency crisis at public premises as our IMPLAGUIDE does: it increases safety, increases accessibility and lowers acquisition and operational costs.
IMPLAGUIDE directly increases accessibility and safety in public premises and evacuation in case of emergencies, especially for disabled people. It also enhances the signage safety efficiency in all public premises and implies a decrease in energy consumption (500 batteries saved per 10,000m2). IMPLAGUIDE, as digital and interacting system, is fully aligned with the European policies of smart cities the infrastructure and the people in the smart cities.

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