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Between 2004 and 2009, the European Commission and 42 partners from 16 countries invested about 24 million Euros to empower mobile workers through the wearIT@work project. In addition to maintenance, production, healthcare, and emergency response, new application domains targeted included cultural heritage, a rural living lab for the prevention of environmental disasters, and wearable computing assistance...
The temperatures of objects and ambient air are important to a firefighter when fighting an indoor fire. Firefighters have difficulty sensing temperature through their protective gloves, yet the often-used practice of removing their gloves risks burning their hands. One potential solution is to add a temperature sensor outside of the glove and a tactile display inside the glove that maps the sensed...
CHRONIOUS project contributions supports the design and the development of an open architecture monitoring platform aiming on the detailed description of patient's health status focusing on people with chronic diseases. Essential modules of the CHRONIOUS system are the wearable platform responsible for the collection of several vital body signs, environmental, context and patient's activity signals...
Among the initiatives aiming to improve the health status monitoring technologies, the European Commission promotes CHRONIOUS, a 42 months project, started on February 1st 2008, which involves 19 partners from several countries. The CHRONIOUS project works on an innovative system with intelligent sensors and decision support system for patients and healthcare professionals in the area of chronic diseases...
Wearable computers are often cited as an enabling technology for out-of-office applications. In fact, there has been a considerable amount of work on industrial applications of wearables. However, with the notable exception of the symbol arm-worn system, this research has had little impact on industrial practice. The wearIT@work project is a 4 1/2-year effort financed by the European Union and aimed...
Currently wearable computing is still a technology of niches and in a laboratory stage. With wearIT@work a project dedicated to applications was launched by the European Commission (EC IP 004216). The first year of the project is nearly over and first results were achieved. In this paper the concept of the project is introduced and first results are presented. As the project strongly follows a user...
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