Project description
Training researchers to improve well-being wearables
Smart clothing and smart watches are monitoring our every move, breath and heartbeat. Such wearables are widely being used in the field of eHealth and ambient assisted living, resulting in increased independent life and reduced care costs. In future, the next generation of wearables will be heterogeneous, operating on batteries, solar power, or powered by human motion. In this context, the EU-funded A-WEAR project will create European doctoral programmes to train a new generation of early-stage researchers to understand and disseminate the vulnerabilities and the corresponding solutions to communication through wearables. The project will contribute to easy living, effective and enjoyable work, and new solutions to protect privacy.
Objective
The emerging market of wearables is expected to grow exponentially in the near future, driven by the sales increase of smart clothes, watches, and eyeglasses. The future wearables are likely to be heterogeneous, operating on batteries, sun power or human motion, and endowed with smart functions. They will co-operate in a decentralized manner with each other and will be able to reach various interconnected software and applications. The main stream wearable-based architecture has been applied so far in wellbeing industries, such as eHealth or ambient assisted living, which might also reduce the costs for care and guarantee a healthy independent live in the forthcoming older society. As the digitalisation and data-based economy are growing, the exploitation potential of the wearables can easily be expected to increase. Key wearables stakeholder groups in the future are also smart cities, comprising intelligent building industry and infrastructure, energy-efficient smart grid sector, public e-Services, and smart transport. Motivated by the opportunities that next-generation wearable intelligence is expected to provide, the mission of A-WEAR action is to cross-disciplinarily create new architectures, open-source software and frameworks for dynamic wearable ecosystems, with distributed localization and privacy constraints. We aim at building new joint/double European doctoral programmes to train a new generation of young researchers in order to be aware of, to cope with, and to disseminate to a large audience the vulnerabilities and the corresponding solutions of the communication and positioning through wearables. The impact of A-WEAR will be to enhance the future social well-being, to contribute to an easy living, effective and enjoyable work, and to offer new solutions to the challenges of violation of privacy by communication and positioning through wearables and to the need of applying the right of the ownership to one’s data.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- medical and health sciences health sciences health care services eHealth
- engineering and technology civil engineering urban engineering smart cities
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
MAIN PROGRAMME
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H2020-EU.1.3.1. - Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018
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33100 TAMPERE
Finland
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