Description du projet
Des solutions de santé IdO pour le marché chinois
L’utilisation croissante de capteurs portables et de dispositifs de l’Internet des objets (IdO) joue un rôle important dans la personnalisation des solutions de coaching en santé personnelle et en changement comportemental destinées à prévenir les maladies chroniques. Les entreprises de l’UE spécialisées dans l’IdO considèrent la Chine comme un marché essentiel. Ces technologies s’accompagnent toutefois de divers défis techniques, juridiques et socio-économiques. Le secteur européen de l’IdO devrait fournir des solutions sur mesure qui répondent aux besoins, aux comportements et aux habitudes des consommateurs chinois. Le projet HEART, financé par l’UE, confie à une équipe de chercheurs la tâche d’intégrer les sciences sociales et humaines à des compétences techniques avancées, à la créativité, à l’innovation et à l’esprit d’entreprise, ainsi qu’à des capacités de travail en équipe, afin d’intégrer efficacement l’IdO et les soins de santé dans l’environnement commercial chinois.
Objectif
A current trend in healthcare involves the prevention of chronic diseases by changing behaviour towards more healthy lifestyle choices. This is supported by the increased use of wearable sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Human activity recognition and vital sign monitoring play a significant role in tailoring personal health and behaviour change coaching solutions to each individual, but pose a number of technical, legal, and socio-economic issues, which must be solved to enable a commercial viable solution.
The IoT is a key growth business area for EU firms, which need to acquire competencies and skills for the exploitation of their innovation potential abroad. China is a key destination market, but products and solutions have to be tailored to the needs, behaviours and habits of Chinese consumer and to the specificity of the market. The goals of HEART project are:
• to allow the formation of a team of 6 researchers, with a strong interdisciplinary attitude, integrating social science and humanities with high-end technical skills, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial allure, with teamwork capabilities and ability to operate in the Chinese context for business in the domain of IoT and healthcare;
• to release a health integrated activity recognition platform able to detect activities from heterogeneous data, using scalable algorithms, while safeguarding the privacy of the persons. A priority for the Non Academic beneficiary’s competitiveness is to deliver wearable technology for health monitoring, primary dedicated to healthy people (of +40 age) to penetrate the Chinese market;
• to address the growing need of EU firms, for employees having the necessary skills (technical, legal and economic) in the IoT domain, thus increasing their international competitiveness.
The consortium is composed of Philips, KU Leuven and the UNIMC with strong interdisciplinary experience in all relevant fields of HEART, supported by a network of partners in EU and China.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningtransfer learning
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- humanities
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systemshome automation
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
MSCA-ITN-EID - European Industrial DoctoratesCoordinateur
62100 Macerata
Italie