Various anti-drowning items are currently used in the world. The most popular are life jackets, but they are not comfortable for permanent wear. Particularly, their wear problems arise from the high temperature of the air, when the body sweats and people in open areas want to enjoy the sun. Therefore, when children playing near the water without adult attendance and have no swimming skils and life jackets, often ends in death.
The project idea is to create the unique anti-drowning collar for children. The inovation will be applied into device manufacturing process and product will be sold as the unique personal protective equipment. The early stage device has unique properties as a product, to save children’s life when accidentally fall into water. The collar automatically (without human intervention) activates when sensors detects the water and device starts inflates airbags to lift up children’s head above water level.
Project funding:
Projects funded by the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology
Project results:
The project aim is to create (final prototype) and demonstrate 10 units of collars.
Period of project implementation: 2017-10-31 - 2018-12-31
Project coordinator: Kaunas University of Technology
Project partners: Company "Supakis"
