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H2020Doctoral network2017–2021

HEART · HEalth related Activity Recognition system based on IoT – an interdisciplinary training program for young researchers

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-09-01 → 2021-08-31
EU contribution
€1,527,991
Participants
9
Scheme
MSCA-ITN-EID

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Results in brief

HEalth related Activity Recognition system based on IoT – an interdisciplinary training program for young researchers

The context for the Heart project is related to the increasing use of wearable sensors to remotely monitor human activities and vital parameters. The topic has become truly crucial in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide, where remote patients (treated at home or living in not easy accessible areas) needed monitoring services. The potential innovation of the Internet of Things (IoT) in personal health coaching programs is particularly useful to prevent chronic diseases that are booming in context characterized by aging societies (as in Europe and China). Indeed, those solutions rise a number of technical, legal, cultural and socio-economic challenges, which must be solved to enable a commercial solution. The IoT can be a key growth business area for EU firms, which need competencies and skills for the exploitation of their innovation potential abroad. China is a key destination market, but products and solutions have to be adapted to the needs, behaviors and habits of Chinese consumer and to the specificity of the market. It is also to be considered that Chinese firms have achieved a high level of innovation in the use of digital technology to serve the healthcare industry, as shown in the management of the Pandemic. The impact of HEART can be found at industry and academic level, as well as in terms of quality of ESRs’ attitude and skills. Heart aimed to: • allow the formation of a team of new researchers, with a completely new profile, based on a strong interdisciplinary attitude, technical skills, creativity and entrepreneurial allure; • release a health integrated activity recognition platform able to detect activities from heterogeneous data, using scalable algorithms, while safeguarding the privacy of the persons; • provide EU firms with for new profiles of researchers having the needed skills in the IoT domain, thus increasing their international competitiveness.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

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.

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Participants

  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MACERATA · MacerataCoordinatorItaly
  • CONSTRUCTOR UNIVERSITY BREMEN GGMBH · BremenGermany
  • EUROCENTRO SRL · JesiItaly
  • FUDAN UNIVERSITY · SHANGHAIChina
  • GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES · BEIJINGChina
  • ISTITUTO DI STUDI PER L'INTEGRAZIONE DEI SISTEMI - SOCIETA'COOPERATIVA · ROMAItaly
  • KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenBelgium
  • PHILIPS (CHINA) INVESTMENT CO LTD · SHANGHAIChina
  • PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND BV · EindhovenNetherlands

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union