Research on the application of sensorization and AI technologies for the detection and evaluation of postural alterations and motor disabilities. Proof of concept in target population.
Project awarded within the support program for AEI in the 2024 call for proposals. The deadline for completion is set between August 2024 and July 2025. The entities and companies forming the project consortium are 2 clusters; SIVI Cluster and Functional Print Cluster and 4 SMEs: Aspace Salamanca, Ceteo, Instituto de Ciencias Salud de Castilla y León, Centro Stirling and Nufe belonging to the communities of Castilla y León, Navarra and Cataluña.
The PLAIISENS project started a few months ago; it is the continuation of a work already carried out in a first phase with PLAISENS, presented and developed in a previous call for AEIs in 2023. This is a necessary and strategic extension to ensure the overall success of the project, consolidating its impact in the field of health and health technology.
The first phase of the project focused on the research to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for the subsequent development of a sensorized platform for the detection of body pressure of the person in ventral and dorsal decubitus, as well as in sedentary position, associated with the generation of a software that collects this data for evaluation and decision support for the health professional.
PLAISENS investigated to provide greater objectivity to these data to provide a reliable tool to assess the risk of developing postural alterations and psychomotor retardation, the evolution of these alterations in the context of the maturation of the central nervous system (CNS) and the efficacy and effect of specific therapeutic actions at specific times, based on achieving increased symmetries in the supports to improve the postural and orthopedic situation of the patients.
The application of technologies based on capacitive and resistive sensors, which will be printed using electronic printing technologies, was studied with the aim of making it possible to manufacture devices in the future in a simple and inexpensive way in order to deploy the use of these devices in the social and healthcare environment.
Now with PLAIISENS, the project faces the challenge of investigating the application of 4.0 technologies for the future development of a sensorized platform available to health personnel for the early diagnosis, evaluation and monitoring of patients, especially children and young people, with motor disabilities and/or postural alterations.
This second phase of the project aims to address both technological and clinical challenges. The objective of this project is to research and develop a technological solution on 3D surfaces based on the joint use of 4.0 technologies of electronic printing, sensorics and artificial intelligence as a demonstrator of the capabilities of the technology, focused on extracting objective data relating to the posture of the person in both decubitus, to detect the risk of developmental disorders in the first year of life, as well as to associate the data of the posture in both decubitus with the development or evolution of deformities in population with neuro-musculoskeletal pathology in infant-juvenile age and to analyze the ethical-legal conditions necessary to implement the technological solution in clinical practice.
The entities that are part of this initiative are Aspace Salamanca, an association of parents of people with cerebral palsy and related encephalopathies of Salamanca; Ceteo, an orthopedic expert in accessibility, orthotics, prosthetics and custom-made products; ICSCYL, Institute of Health Sciences of Castilla y Leon; Centro Stirling, the R&D&I unit of Mondragón Componentes; Nufesa Electronics, a pioneering company in the supply of products and accessories in the electronics and microelectronics market; and the associations AEI Cluster SIVI, the cluster of innovative solutions for independent living, and Functional Print Cluster, a cluster association for functional and additive printing.
The PLAIISENS project: Sensorized Intelligent Platform (File No.: AEI-010500-2024-233), budgeted at 334,469.00 €, is financed with 252,745.00 € by the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, through the support program for Innovative Business Groups (AEI) 2024, with the aim of improving the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises.
