Project description
Leisurely boating and port manoeuvres with real-time safety information on your smartphone
Watching boaters enjoying a beautiful day on the water conjures up feelings of serenity. However, maritime accidents are not uncommon, posing a risk to life and property. The Italian SME Echoes has developed Green Radar, a smartphone-compatible digitalised boating platform to enhance safety. It delivers information such as other ships’ positions and dangerous paths and obstacles, and calculates trajectories, speeds and possible collisions. All this information is available on a user’s smartphone in real time. Moreover, since the platform uses passive rather than active radar technology, it has low energy consumption and no electromagnetic emissions. The EU-funded Green Radar project is helping the team bring the innovation to market.
Objective
GREEN RADAR is a ground-breaking multi-side boating platform that takes advantage of our in-house passive radar technology. The platform is designed to increase maritime security mainly for leisure boats, displaying directly essential information on our smart-phone and in real-time: other ships positions, dangerous routes and paths, calculation of possible collision, obstacles, trajectory boats line description and speed accurate values.
The pioneer of the mentioned innovation is ECHOES S.R.L. an Italian spin-off from the CNIT (Inter- University Consortium for Telecommunications), mainly involved in design, development and commercialisation of low emission, small size and low energy consumption radar systems.
Our revolutionary system is set to change the entire industry, as it addresses the current limitations of active radars, that are expensive, bulky, energy intensive and produce high electromagnetic pollution. GREEN RADAR, instead works with zero electromagnetic emission and low electric consumption as takes advantage of the passive radar properties. The use of our system will allow Port Authorities (clients) and end-users to reduce maritime accidents by 35%, increase safety, save energy and reducing maintenance costs (25%). Ports as our main client, will be attract of our cutting-edge platform due to the notable cost savings by reducing the deployment of rescue craft units’ due to maritime accidents, improving the port management and promoting tourism activities along the coast.
With our solution, ECHOES S.r.l. estimates to generate an accumulated total Revenues of €9.77M in the first 5 years of commercialisation, while for ports this translate in 20% new clients. This would allow us to reach an accumulated ROI of 2.4. GREEN RADAR is fully aligned with our technical and commercial strategies and can contribute to boost the growth of ECHOES S.r.l. in order to occupy 0,36% of the global maritime and radar market.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications radio technology radar
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications mobile phones
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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56123 PISA PI
Italy
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