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Engineering applied to save lives.

The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) presented today at the Experimental Station Agroalimentaria Thomas Ferro arc automatic roll-over tractor and a heat detection system to avoid casualties as a result of the 'New Machine safety devices', driven by Service Support Research Technology (SAIT) UPCT 50,000 euros and funded by the Department of Employment, Education and Universities of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.

The Minister Pedro Antonio Sanchez and rector, Jose Antonio Franco, have noted how researchers at the Polytechnic have implemented a tractor an innovative device to prevent accidents on tractors.

The system allows the operator to both extend the arc manually by pressing a button, as the arc is automatically deployed in 800 milliseconds if the tractor has rollover danger thanks to a tilt sensor.

The device, developed at SAIT scale and implemented on the farm Thomas Ferro, includes a pre-arc automatic alarm activation, a black box that records the event and automatically sending an SMS message advising overturning and notes the exact location of the tractor.

Researchers estimate that the market mechanism could be around 1,000 euros.

"A very affordable when it comes to saving lives," stressed the president.

The project is responding to accidents among users of tractors, which caused eight deaths in the Region of Murcia in the past two years, according to data provided by the Director General of Labour, Fernando Velez.

In some of the incidents the victims took hours to encontradas.Este safety device is designed taking into account the unique characteristics of work in the field of the Region of Murcia, especially in fruit farms, where tractors are used without cab and roll bar, as these elements impede and obstruct the work.

The project, which has worked for two scholarship students from the School of Industrial UPCT is to achieve new smart devices that "minimize situations in which the operator has to make a decision about security, so you can focus in production, "said Isidro Ibarra, director of SAIT.

Source: UPCT