P.O.D_Plurisensorial Device to prevent Occupational Disease_research

P.O.D. is a transnational research project co-founded by European Commission-SAF€RA 2014 joint call-grant agreement number 291812 conducted at Design Department of Politecnico di Milano and in collaboration with Delft University and Comftech s.rl. This Project focuses on development of a novel concept to prevent respiratory diseases inside the specific working environment of a coating plant.

The result of the project is a system Plurisensorial Device to prevent Occupational disesas that consists of 4 parts:

  • Electronic Nose Device,
  • Respiratory Mask with a T/humidity sensor
  • 2 mobile app and
  • Respiratory chest bend.

This project resulted with 2 patents and numerous publications.

Project coordinator ::: Venere Ferraro

Year ::: 2015 / 2018

Context ::: Research | Academic

POD system
Interaction flow between different parts of the system
Prototype of the mask and electronic nose device
Prototype details