Descripción del proyecto
Un secador de cuerpo innovador para personas con movilidad reducida
En hoteles, gimnasios, hospitales y residencias de ancianos, el mantenimiento de las toallas supone una porción importante de los costes, ya que consume energía y agua. Como consecuencia, reducir los costes de lavandería es indispensable para el mercado. Los instrumentos de secado de manos constituyen una solución que elimina el uso de toallas de mano. Sin embargo, no hay dispositivos fiables para sustituir las toallas de cuerpo. El proyecto BD Body Dryer, financiado con fondos europeos, propone una solución innovadora que seca completamente el cuerpo de una persona en un minuto y medio. El dispositivo consta de una columna colocada en el baño que genera aire caliente. Basado en un dispositivo más grande probado en hoteles y gimnasios, BD Body Dryer está diseñado para personas con movilidad reducida y para gimnasios.
Objetivo
Hotels, gyms, hospitals, and elderly residences depend on washing machines for towel maintenance, which requires water, electricity, and chemical substances. These institutions face an environmentally unsustainable situation with the use of water and electricity, without mentioning the laundry wastewater and expenses of billions of euros. In spite of similar technology used to reduce the use of towels in restrooms, the hand dryer devices; still, the use of the body towels remains invariable in the market due to inefficient devices and low-user acceptance.
In response, we have developed a unique premium body dryer able to completely dry the body within 1 min and a half, three times faster than the only two inefficient solutions in the market. Our product consists of a column held on the bathroom wall that generates warm air by a powerful engine hidden inside the tower. The warm air is delivered to the body by a central groove through descending movements of the turbine. The column mirror finished also integrates aromatherapy and color-therapy technologies for an end-user wellness unique experience.
Our product is designed to reach firstly the premium hotels market and gyms, a market that needs to reduce the towel use urgently. Indeed, BD Body Dryer will represent yearly savings of 65% of the laundry costs (estimated in €40k savings/year for a 200-room hotel). Because of the advantages of our technology, we also manufacture BD Body Dryer with a second non-mirrored wellness presentation (an slim model). This model is an assistive device for people with reduced mobility (our second target) and for the gyms. We have already protected our prototype with two patents and one utility model in the main Markets (Europe, USA, and Japan). Thus, after 5-year cumulative sales in these markets of 26,300 units sold, BD Body Dryer will give net revenues of ~€47.5M net profits of ~23M and, considering the investment of €1.5M an ROI of ~14.37 euro per euro invested.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
28006 MADRID
España
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.