A Limerick company is on the threshold of bringing a new child safety system to market following the concept designs of a Limerick father, Jim Kirby and his wife.
The Limerick couple are in the development stages of their project where they have secured the intellectual property of the system and its patents.
Securing additional funding for the further development of the project is key to the success of bringing this innovative safety system to the end user in their homes.
Noting recent news coverage of house fires tragedies, Jim believes that if their product was available to the public “it this would have saved valuable minutes”.
“Our product is awaiting prototype construction, but funding for development is holding up mass production of the child alive system.
Jim believes that this product now in development could “address the serious nationwide safety deficiency demonstrated by a recent near-tragedy in Swords, co Dublin.
Noting the circumstances of how a mother tied sheets together to get her children out of the burning inferno, Jim added that it was “only the very quick thinking and clever improvisation by this mother of three that saved her children from certain death in late January of this year. Cut off from her escape route, she used bed-sheets knotted together to lower her family to the ground. Not every child faced with this scenario will be so lucky.”
“Now, the Child Alive System from Becasi International is a unique device that can give peace of mind to every mother of young children confronted with this nightmare. Designed for just such a fire emergency in the domestic setting, it empowers all mothers and carers of children from 1 to 4 years old with the wherewithal to duplicate this escape, but utilising a dedicated Irish designed self-contained mechanical system.
Jim tells of how the brainchild was born. “The Child Alive system concept came to my wife Caroline when I was away on business, and she found herself wondering what she would do if our then very young children needed to be evacuated quickly from the 1st floor of our house and her escape route was blocked by flames and/or smoke. From that thought we took it further and we are now seeking funding to bring this to life and save lives.”
This child alive system is totally unique in the market place as it is; compact (to fit under domestic bed, lightweight, self-contained, reusable (same emergency, multiple evacuations), simple and quick to deploy in an emergency via upper floor windows, capable of being operated by a single adult, male or female and could quite possibly facilitate their own escape.
Jim gave the Limerick Post Business section the story board of the product’s application. See images on right.
