Description du projet
Sauver des vies humaines sans mettre les secouristes en danger
La navigation et la voile de plaisance en plein essor ont enregistré un nombre record de membres du personnel ou de passagers tombés par-dessus bord, et de noyades. Cette situation, autrement connue sous l’expression «un homme à la mer», a également accru les risques dans les opérations de sauvetage en mer et dans les rivières. Le produit développé, «iLifebuoy», est une bouée robotisée qui limite considérablement les dangers liés aux opérations de sauvetage traditionnelles. À l’instar des Saint-Bernards, iLifebuoy localise et cherche la personne en détresse, apportant une assistance sûre. La nouveauté du projet tient au fait qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un dispositif contrôlé à distance; mais d’un traceur automatisé agissant sur la base des données reçues par vidéo. Quelques estimations semblent indiquer une demande potentielle d’au moins 1,3 million d’unités, ce qui peut engendrer la création de dizaines de nouveaux emplois.
Objectif
The objective of our business project is to help save human lives by entering the aquatic lifesaving equipment market for
lifebuoys. The recent growth of the shipping and leisure sailing (wider seafaring) industry has in turn increased the risks and
number of Man Overboard (MOB) situations leading to drowning at sea and rivers. Expected product - ‘iLifebuoy’ is an
autonomous robotized lifebuoy that eliminates the challenges associated with the traditional life saving devices. Like the St.
Bernard dogs, iLifebuoy autonomously finds & reaches the person and provides them first support.
The novelty - it is not a remote-controlled lifebuoy- it is a collaborative robot. iLifebuoy is a fully autonomous tracer, but it receives (video) input from a human. It uses three different built-in sensors (audio, video and sonar) to pin-point the location of MOB in water, then activates a waterjet propulsion to reach and provide support to the MOB within less than a 2 minutes! iLifebuoy further sends a MAYDAY signal to channel 16 and emits the GPS coordinates of the MOB.
The advantages over all competitors – iLifebuoy saves crucial time in a MOB situation since: a) it does not require a qualified lifeguard to be around - the first person who identifies the MOB can directly deploy the iLifebuoy in the water; b) it effectively eliminates the need for lifeguards to enter the water and reach the person in distress. Our Primary market for product introduction will be watercrafts.
Conservative estimates of the ‘addressable/obtainable market’ (only 6.3% of the Total Available Market (TAM) indicate potential demand for 1.3M units growing at a CARG 5.7% YoY until 2024. Based on very conservative assumptions for production and market penetration we expect to reach 2.03% of the ‘obtainable market’, create 87 new jobs and realise £27M of EBITDA by our 3rd year of trading. We estimate to break even after 1.5 years.
Champ scientifique
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animals
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
SE10 0NS LONDON
Royaume-Uni
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.