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Smart signaling system to increase road safety

Project description

New signalling device for safer roads

The effectiveness of traffic signs depends mainly on their visibility. This means road signage and warning technologies need to be maintained and improved. Many road accident deaths and serious injuries, which are due to improper visibility, are reported every year. Current technologies applied for signalling and lighting are inefficient and influenced by weather conditions, bad maintenance or low technological services. The Spanish Innovaciones SP3 proposes a new application called the Sislum, which will increase visibility and reduce road casualties by 70 %. The device is proposed for high-traffic areas near schools, transport stations and bike paths. The EU-funded Sislum project aims to prepare the device for commercialisation in the global market by 2022.

Objective

Walking is 36 times more dangerous than driving, and 300 times more dangerous than flying. The first road crossing was invented in the 1930’s and remain almost the same since then. Each year road crashes generates around 95,000 fatalities and 2.4 million injuries only in EU region. 90 % of crashes are linked to human error, with pedestrians and riders constituting the main victims (39% of all deaths in road crashes) due to primarily inadequate visibility of pedestrians and vehicle speed. The problem remains unsolved due the limitations of current signs and warning technologies, such as: Ineffectiveness over time due to the temporary tunnel vision issue; Low tolerance to extreme weather conditions; Lack of incorporated Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Many of current signaling systems deform road surface/bent the sidewalks after continuous vehicle transit over them or require complex maintenance operations with high return on investment.
In response to these challenges, Innvoaciones SP3 is bringing Sislum to the market: an emerging lighting system to increase road safety; promoting “smart mobility” through maximum crosswalk visibility and becoming a key enabler device to reduce road accidents up to 70%.
According the audit performed by a certified authority, due to its potential impact in accident reduction, Sislum is recommend being installed in areas with more vulnerable users, such as in schools’ areas, pedestrian crossings, level crossings, bike paths, bus stops, parking exits, airports, and police stations among others.
Sislum has already been tested in different road sections in 3 municipalities in Spain, including testing for analytics of the data generated by the application, with a positive outcome of increasing visibility up to 800m.
Our goal is to reach the market by 2022 and expand globally, in order to make road and especially pedestrian crossings safer worldwide.

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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

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INNOVACIONES SP SL
Net EU contribution

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€ 50 000,00
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CALLE LUNA 6 LOCAL 3
28691 VILLANUEVA DE LA CANADA MADRID
Spain

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SME

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Yes
Region
Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 71 429,00
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