Revolve Air Wheelchair - The Innovative Solution For Travel Mobility

This paper will review Revolve Air wheelchair that is relevant to this engineering sector. The technology is incorporated into the wheelchair, which folds down for fitting inside the overhead section of baggage within the aircraft. Revolve Air wheelchair is the space-saving solution of mobility for commuters as well as avid travellers alike people who need a much better way for getting around, which is highly portable, supportive and comfortable (Mhatre 2018). This wheelchair features the folding design and is more enhanced with the folding wheel, which would save about an additional 60 percent when compared with all other styles within the market. It enables this collapse down in being small so that this could be stowed within an airplane’s overhead bin to have maximum portability. This wheelchair would provide a comfortable travelling experience for all people by allowing those people in bringing their mobility aid with them in place of using ones that are available within the terminal.

Figure 1: Different sizes of Revolve Air wheelchair (Rojas Ponce and Molina 2018)

This Revolve Air wheelchair is revolutionizing travel for the users. This wheelchair could fold down to be fit into the standard dimension of the cabin baggage used by the airlines. It means that wheelchair users now wouldn’t need to check in the wheelchair and depend upon airport assistance during their journey (Bhagchandani 2020). This wheelchair aims in giving new independence to every active wheelchair user who travels as well as commutes every day. It also reduces the risk of damaging the necessary and valuable chair. In addition, there isn’t any need for storing the wheelchair within the huge trunk of the car giving the users of this wheelchair freedom for driving small vehicles or taking a taxi. The aim of Revolve Air is making such a wheelchair a part of the certified carry-on luggage within the flights.

Figure 2: Revolve Air wheelchair (Ghorbel, Amor and Jallouli 2019)

The founder of this Revolve Air wheelchair has planned the revolutionary rental system for improving the service of this wheelchair within national as well as international airports all over the world (Srijony et al. 2021). People could book this Revolve Air wheelchair remotely from smartphones. The wheelchair users could move around the city or airport freely, along with access the public transportations without any help from others.   Revolve Wheel has partnered with the DEXET technologies for transferring a functional prototype to production-ready products. DEXET technologies, specializing within mechanical engineering, mainly focus upon high-performance projects of automobiles. Revolve Air has also partnered with Flying Disabled as well as SWS Certification for creating the design that works in the same way to LATCH or ISOFIX standards within the passenger cars. This project is seeking the business partners now for producing wheelchair’s limited series, for being tested by all active travellers of the wheelchair (Na et al. 2021). This overall project is developed as well as prototypes within the house having low production costs. In addition, development with all potential partners could be focused upon maintaining all lightweight frames along with maintaining the democratic price for making this affordable to all potential users.

Market Sector and Application

The key feature of this wheelchair includes 24 inches foldable wheels. This wheelchair folds within a similar time as the standard foldable wheelchairs; however, it saves almost 60 percent of additional space that makes this appropriate for every airplane trip along with other similar types of journeys. The wheel of the wheelchair itself features the central hub, the aluminium rim, which is divided further into 6 interlocking sections; all those sections are clad in the length of a tire filled with foam, and aluminium structures taking place of the traditional spokes.

Figure 3: Mobility of Revolve Air wheelchair (Kobayashi and Nakagawa 2018)

The locking mechanism within the hub helps to keep this overall thing secure in the conventional wheel’s form when this is used. Once it is time in stowing the wheel, the release of such a mechanism allows the hub’s two sides in spreading apart from each other, such that the rim sections along with spokes could be stored as well as folded down between them. This resulting package that is more compact when compared to the regular wheel can be described best as the cylinder bulging out within the middle (Azad et al. 2018). Revolve Air wheelchair helps to incorporate two wheels of 24 inches joined sidewise along the shared axle. The component helps to house the wheels when these are folded. While using this wheelchair, this capsule gets removed, and the wheels are opened, then this capsule is opened back onto the axle that helps serve it as a seat. The telescoping frame has front wheels’ small set on that end folds then from the seat or capsule’s underside.

There are several policies and guidelines in place for encouraging sustainability along with renewable materials. There are several regulations in place for ensuring that the quality of this Revolve air wheelchair is not compromised, along with they must undergo several safety tests before being used actually by all potential users. It means that a regulator would have all rights in removing the items that are deemed unsafe to use when this poses any safety risk to all potential users. They would gain all rights as well for undergoing the safety test that might be passed for being deemed safe. As there is no need to check-in this Revolve air wheelchair as additional baggage, it is assumed by the inventor that waiting times of nearly about 3 hours could be saved during any regular flight (Hashizume et al. 2018). This Revolve air wheelchair is the test as well as the prototype phase currently. It must be certified by 2022 and launched for nearly about €2500. Hence, this Revolve air wheelchair would be 1^st active wheelchair in the world that should be approved as the hand luggage for all international as well as national flights.

Government Regulatory, Guidance or Policy Alignment

This Revolve air wheelchair is the 1^st active wheelchair all over the world that fits all standard universal size restrictions of cabin luggage. This innovative design of this Revolve air wheelchair allows in saving more space as this occupies 60 percent lesser space if folded when compared to all other traditional wheelchairs. Also, it means that there is no need in worrying about the check-in process of the wheelchairs much earlier before the flight. This Revolve air wheelchair could be carried with the user and kept in the overhead bins (Choi, Chung and Oh 2019). In such a way, the users could avoid the threat of damaging the valuable wheelchair as well, and no need to wait for that luggage delivery.

Figure 4: Different areas Revolve Air wheelchair (Sankardoss and Geethanjali 2021)

The aim of Revolve air wheelchair is becoming 1^st wheelchair to be certified as the carry-on luggage for international as well as national flights. Revolve air wheelchair allows to travel in style along with light in every public transportation. This Revolve air wheelchair provides freedom in moving around, and there is not any need for driving large MPV (Sakai et al. 2019). In addition, it improves the trip experience of the users, particularly for every active wheelchair traveller. It is the new way for saving time as well as space. It comes with some rental spaces as well for improving the service of this wheelchair in national as well as international airports all over the world. Hence, this is possible in using this Revolve air wheelchair on a rental basis.  

This SWOT analysis is the analysis based upon all strengths, threats, opportunities, and weaknesses. The weaknesses, along with strengths, are the results of all internal analyses. The threats, as well as opportunities, are the results of all external analyses.

• The organization is creative as well as innovative in its designs.
• Interested in all needs of all possible users.
• This team is quite a cooperative group having a broad variety of knowledge.

• The budget for the project is low.
• There exists a language barrier due to different cultures in this project.
• The time allocated for the project is quite short.

• The users are likely to customize all personal belongings.
• The system is working upon a new Disability Strategy

• Most of the users are using a mechanical wheelchair. It is one type of threat as the objective is creating the revolving wheelchair.
• Unemployment of one of the major issues.

Conclusion and Recommendations

Revolve Air wheelchair is a combination of sturdy along with safe design with the collapsible wheels. This product could fold down for fitting the standard dimensions of the cabin baggage used by the airlines. It means that the users of wheelchairs could not have to check-in their wheelchairs as well as depend on assistance from the airport along the journey. It is the real breakthrough which could have a liberating effect upon those needing to use the wheelchairs in every best way possible. It saves additional space and makes this appropriate for all airplane trips. Folding or opening this Revolve Air wheelchair is quite a simple action, needing no additional strength and is not complicated as well. The wheels could collapse with the hub along with the backrest as well as the seat that guarantees both transportabilities along with compactness.

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