Project description
New device to make sure medical drone deliveries go smoothly
Up to now, helicopters and vehicles have been widely used to transport vaccines, medications and other emergency medical supplies. The use of drones is starting to take off, to address the limitations of traditional modes of transport. To boost the future use of drones in healthcare, the EU-funded ADRONE4LIFE is developing a smart device to improve safety in drone-based telemedicine systems. The device is flexible, modular and adaptable, guaranteeing and monitoring the condition of the medical drone’s cargo, be it blood bags or anti-venom serum. It will also be able to automatically control the drone’s flight path to ensure safe and timely arrival to the destination by avoiding harsh weather conditions.
Objective
On a daily basis, urgent transport for blood bags, hemocomponets, medical goods and other indispensable health needs are required all over the world. Current emergency transportation for medical needs, a market that will reach $93,2 Billion in 2021 needs a technological upgrade. The actual delivery process involves long waiting time, depends on a specialized driver and has to be delivered by road, or, when extremely necessary, by helicopter, both alternatives represent high direct and indirect costs (up to 2000€) that have to be faced by the medical facilities, the government and the citizens, while every minute lost could potentially endanger patient’s life.
ABzero is a start-up that operates in the field of design and production of technological tools, specially focus in the healthcare sector. Created in 2017 in order to face current deficiencies in the healthcare system by giving the community an innovative solution adapted to the latest technologies. As a spin-off of Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna, ABzero have access to their state of the art BioRobotic laboratory and the latest research studies in both, the technological and medical field.
ADrone4Life is capable of facing current high cost, long delivery time and deficiencies in the emergency transport for medical needs. This smart case is flexible and modular, able to adapt, guarantee and monitor its cargo conditions, such as blood bags and samples, organs or any other health need at any time while automatically control whichever latest technology drone it is attached to, in order to swiftly reach its required destination overcoming any weather condition. This innovation will offer a 80% time reduction compared current delivery time and 99% cost reduction translated into more than 2000€ savings for each delivery with no CO² emissions. The company will benefit from an accumulated revenue of €15.045.000 and a total operational cash flow of €6.341.000 by 2024, creating 29 new job opportunities.
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- medical and health sciences clinical medicine emergency medicine
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering robotics autonomous robots drones
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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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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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56124 PISA
Italy
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