Deadline: 2-May-23
Can you provide a solution that can help the Seeker companies to prevent workplace accidents before they happen? This Theoretical Challenge requires only a written proposal. If you are interested then apply now.
The risk of accidents at work represents a problem, especially in a post-pandemic world with the rise in remote working. With advances in technology, always-on systems that can detect warning signs and other anomalies in the behavior of workers would reduce this risk and improve the health and safety of drivers, operators, and field workers.
The COTEC Foundation have organized this contest, with their members Enel, Eni, and Leonardo, to find systems that can detect behavior and warning signs of risk to their drivers, operators, and field workers.
Your system could help prevent situations that can create danger or risks. For instance, a solution that could identify warning signs in workers’ vital conditions, behavior, and/or safety equipment use (e.g. use of PPE) will reduce hazards – keeping them safe.
Your solution, at Technology Readiness Level ≥ 5, should detect these anomalies in behavior, as well as providing data for reporting and analysis. Detecting these signs will help the Seekers to prevent workplace accidents through the use of new technologies.
Funding Information
- Award: UP TO $20,000.
Your solutions
- Some examples of use cases where the solutoin could be applied are: vehicle drivers, construction machinery operators, lone workers in remote areas, and electrical grids operators.
- Where possible, your solution should ensure connectivity with innovative telecommunications systems, including the ability to do so in remote areas or areas with poor or no signal – to enable geolocation and health monitoring technologies, even for remote operators.
- The solution can also make use of Artificial Intelligence features, Big Data analytics and use different sources of data, external from its applied area, in order to improve the accuracy of detection.
- The Seekers are looking for solutions that have the potential to further develop bio-vital parameter detection, multimedia data analysis for stress situation detection, and metaverse/digital twin applications for these technologies.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only EU and UK Citizens are eligible for an award in this Challenge.
- Submissions should address the following Solution Requirements. Any proposed solution must:
- Be able to provide a simple and effective warning sign detection solution that is non-invasive;
- Technology Readiness Level (TRL) ≥ 5;
- Be easily integrated with other existing instruments; and
- Be compliant with the EU Regulation no. 2016/679 (EU GDPR rules) and any other applicable local Data Protection legislation (“Applicable Data Protection Legislation”).
- Nice-to-have requirements:
- Your solution could also have the ability to analyse data around any identified conditions of concern.
- The proposed solution should also comply to the ATEX regulation, in case of applicability to explosive atmosphere.
- This Challenge contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
- SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being
- SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure.
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