Project description
New device to keep road workers safe
Road workers have one of the most dangerous jobs. Improving their health, safety and wellbeing is a top priority. The EU-funded ZIMASS project is developing a smart portable and reliable awareness and safety system for work zone invasion. It uses computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to create a virtual security zone and alerts workers in case of danger. The system’s response time is immediate, at less than one second. According to the project, it’s a plug and play solution that can be customised and adaptable to every application and support. The device will be launched in the market by 2020. The plan is to sell more than 3 000 devices in the first 5 years of commercialisation.
Objective
Current technologies applied to road maintenance safety management do not provide adequate warning due to technological limitations that reduce safety system reliability, such as: inaccurate alarms, reduced signal transmission distance, high investment (~2.000€/sensor), or do not meet portability & flexibility needs. This causes that 75% of all road maintenance worker deaths are caused by runovers. To overcome those limitations, Secmotic, Spanish SME, expert in innovative IoT (Internet of Things) solutions for the digital transformations of cities and industry and, has developed ZIMASS, a smart, portable and reliable awareness & safety system for work zone invasion. ZIMASS is based on computer vision and artificial intelligence, to create a virtual security zone, recognize risky situations, and alert workers by connected wearable devices. ZIMASS offers a competitive new solution (3.750 €/system – 10 detection nodes + 5 wearables-) with low exploitation costs (€0,015/ day), and payback period ≤ 2 months. ZIMASS, unmatchable reliability (response time < 1s), increases work safety and work quality, as it reduces sick leaves with its associated financial saving, therefore increasing work productivity. Our smart plug & play solution is customized & adaptable to every application and support. ZIMASS successful launch will be by 2020, boosting our revenues and gross profits to respectively €12,8 M and €3,4 M, with a profitable ROI of 55% by the 5th year. After 5 years, we will sell 3.420 ZIMASS systems, and we will create 15 new job opportunities. We will count with key technical & commercial partners (as S2E), and key end users support as final validators (see support letter of Ferrovial Servicios, Ferrovial Agroman, Cintra, Calle 30 and Emasesa).
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet internet of things
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors optical sensors
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence computer vision
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering information engineering telecommunications radio technology WiFi
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health occupational health
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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41003 SEVILLA
Spain
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