Listen2Future will create an impact through its complete value chain from the material, transducers design, simulation, modelling, manufacturing to the intelligent signal processing system, algorithms and customized packaging to the application level impact through the use cases demonstrators.
Some of the most important pathways to the impact:
- The sensor demonstrators of Listen2Future with their benchmark in low power consumption, small size and low cost will open the door for disruptive new acoustic applications. Major impact on quality of life for humans through utilisation in the area of industrial/energy and health & wellbeing is expected.
- The European position in Acoustic Sensors will be strengthened by new piezoelectric materials and technologies with the capability to outperform the existing ones based on capacitive MEMS technologies. This will impact all battery powered applications using acoustic sensors (e.g. hearing aids) resulting in a longer runtime of batteries.
- The flexible and large area PMUTs present a completely new device class and will allow completely new possibilities for applications as for example implementation of ultrasound patches for continuous ultrasound monitoring of heart operation.
- The project will demonstrate capabilities and versatility of different new Piezo MEMS sensors (double frequency transducers; transducers arrays; 3D printed transducers and others) with outstanding performance regarding efficiency, size and cost including the entire further Signal-processing chain with supporting electronics.
- The results of the medical use cases of Listen2Future will create a pathway toward first of a kind products and new versions of existing products significantly smaller, lightweight, high performing and more efficient. Therefore, it addresses key health challenges at the level of the individual, i.e. directly impacting patients, patient outcomes and patient comfort. It provides hospitals and clinician better tools for decision making and implementing more efficient workflows.
- On society as a whole the Listen2Future use cases provide a path towards more personalized and home-centered healthcare causing a paradigm shift from localized care towards distributed care. Example are point-of-care devices like ultrasound probes for detecting of diseases through serous liquid analysis with help of advanced AI based algorithms that makes utilisation possible also outside of medical facilities and for the wider circle of medical staff.
- New generation of hearing aids and probes based on Listen2Future microphones, which shall be more robust and cheaper that the current technology, directly addresses growing number of elderly people needing a reliable hearing aids to be able to maintain high quality social contacts.
- The results of the industrial and energy related use cases of Listen2Future will open new possibilities regarding continuous monitoring and material analysis will lead to the next level of predictive maintenance for industrial and energy systems. Significant advance in production quality control will be achieved by solutions that allows cheap and efficient non-destructive, on-line testing of all products. New sensors will open new possibilities in environmental perception applicable to automated industrial manufacturing.
- Finally, very relevant to the ongoing gas crisis, a novel gas flow sensor will enable optimised industrial and domestic gas use. The outcome will be higher uptimes in more reliable systems resulting in global competitive production cost, thus impacting production in Europe.
