Current technologies applied to road & railway 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, 100% portable (900 gr weight) 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), with high reliability (99% video detection, response time <1s), and with a payback period ≤ 2 months (equivalent to prevent a sick leave period). 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.
Through Phase 2, we aim to: 1) to improve hardware design & engineering, 2) to improve software and development of a cloud management platform, 3) to manufacture ZIMASS pilots and verify its performance, 3) Final validation and certification of ZIMASS for 3 use cases: 1/Roads maintenance, 2/ Railways maintenance 3/ Roads and Railways maintenance in low-light conditions. We will count with key technical & commercial partners (as S2E), and key end users support as final validators (Ferrovial Servicios, Ferrovial Agroman, Cintra, and Calle 30).
ZIMASS successful launch will be by 2022, boosting our revenues and gross profits to respectively €13,4 M and €3,9 M by the 5th year. Our profitable ROI will be 66% by the 4th year, which will be boosted to 264% thanks to our commercial expansion to USA, Canada and Australia. After 5 years, we will sell 3.913 ZIMASS systems, and we will create 15 new job opportunities.
