Education News Canada shared NC’s release on a made-in-Niagara venture for the aging population supported by NC’s Research and Innovation division. Niagara Falls-based start-up Bisep Inc. turned to NC for help to commercialize a new device to help connect a person’s wheelchair to their walker, enabling unaided movement – solving a common challenge in long-term care.
Named the ARMM (Ambulation, Retraining, Mobility, and Mechanism), the device acts as a security bridge to allow users to walk unassisted with their walker while the wheelchair trails safely behind them.
CEO and founder Daniel Bordenave, had this to say of the support he received from NC: “We were limited in the machinery that we had and the brain capacity we are not engineers. What attracted me to Niagara College was the ability to access the amazing innovation department, a national leading group of engineers, and essentially create a quality product that would be functional, user-friendly, and safe.”
