Guardian Angels: Internet Of Things Will Transform Everything, 30% Year Over Year Growth, Worth $393 Billion in 2013
The Internet of Things is the next ICT disruption
Information technology and electronics are becoming entwined with our everyday lives in industry, the service sector, transport, logistics, health care, housing, education, and our leisure time, almost without our noticing it.
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The changes are already apparent to consumers in the energy sector, for example: remotely readable meters are rapidly becoming more common, enabling developments such as new pricing models that encourage the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. The remote control of machines and devices is experiencing substantial growth and spreading to smaller and smaller appliances. Smart buildings use building automation to control their own functions to an ever greater extent, and remote health care applications are increasing apace with the ageing of the population.
“VTT is developing uID (universal Identification) technology with our Japanese partner, the University of Tokyo,” says VTT Research Professor Heikki Ailisto. “This technology enables the identification and tracking of individual products, components, and food products. With uID, information on origin, manufacture, and history can be attached in the digital world to the most commonplace items over their entire life cycle. A timber plank, for instance, can be tagged with information on which forest the timber was cut from, where it was sawn, how many times it has been painted, and with what paints.”
“Three big waves can be identified in telecommunications in the past century or so. First, the telephone connected 500 million places. The mobile phone then connected 5 billion people. The Internet of Things will connect 50 billion devices, machines, and objects. Objects and packages that do not require an actual data connection can also be named and connected to background systems with the help of identifiers,” says Ailisto.
Objects converse with each other, mobile phones identify our movements
Ubiquitous computing (ubi) and the Internet of Things (IoT) will revolutionise technology and business. VTT sees an opportunity in this revolution; an opportunity that it wants to grasp together with the industry and other actors. The goal is to create a technological operating environment and to build business on it.
VTT has been developing ubiquitous computing applications and basic technology in the OPENS (Open Smart Spaces) programme. The programme’s achievements include the implementation of the interoperability platform Smart M3, which enables various appliances and objects in the home or office to “converse”, understand each other, and share information. This interoperability platform, created for devices produced by different manufacturers for a variety of purposes, is based on so-called semantic technology, which defines a common “language” for devices and applications. The interoperability of devices promotes energy saving, comfort, and safety at home and at work. The solution was developed together by VTT, industrial partners, and universities in various national and European projects.
One way to make appliances and services feel “smart” for the user is to make them situationally aware. Situation and location awareness has already been put into practice in mobile communications devices and other appliances. VTT has brought a new dimension to awareness with the solutions it has developed to enable additional recognition of the user’s activities – is the user sitting, walking, or running? – and his or her method of travel – is the user travelling by train, bus, car, or bicycle? In this way the user can be offered the most appropriate services for the situation.
One example of interaction technology between man and machine is mixed and augmented reality, an area in which VTT has achieved globally significant results. Such applications include motion sensing input devices and 3D cameras for games and practical applications. Mixed and augmented reality as an interface for mobile phones, for example, is just breaking into the market and entering consumer consciousness.
The worth of business related to IoT technology and applications is rising by 30% each year, and by next year will reach EUR 300 billion ($393 Billion). VTT is helping Finnish companies reap their share of this growth. Research in the field is continuing strongly, with a particular focus on the Internet of Things.
The Guardian Angels European-wide partnership, including 58 universities, research institutions and industrial R&D labs in 16 countries, are teaming up to develop ever more compact and streamlined technology that slips seamlessly into our daily lives. Inserted into the fabric of our clothing or in a simple bracelet, for example, these systems will enable us to monitor our health, prevent accidents and go about our daily lives with peace of mind. With accessible and affordable technology, Guardian Angels will bring state-of-the-art developments literally to everyone’s fingertips.
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Physical Smart Autonomous Systems
The Physical GA family consists of wearable, miniaturized, non-invasive devices designed to accurately and robustly monitor physical and physiological parameters in humans. Physical GA systems integrate multiple sensors, securely communicating with each other and central nodes. They allow on-board analysis of the acquired biosignals to support real-time feedback to the user, while preserving user privacy and making data accessible to health care professionals. These Physical GA devices are relevant for a myriad of applications in personalized health and wellness management.
Monitoring the functional physical and nutritional status in the elderly:
Ageing is associated with reduced mobility and increased morbidity. It has been established that increased physical activity and adequate nutrition can attenuate the decline of and even restore musculoskeletal health, for optimal daily functioning, prevention of falls and improved quality of life.
Physical GAs will provide motivational and practical feedback to boost compliance with a healthy lifestyle, enhancing wellbeing.
Early diagnosis and management of metabolic disorders:
Metabolic disorders (e.g., obesity and type II diabetes) are major public health concerns. Lifestyle changes, such as dietary habit modification and increased physical activity are key prevention factors for obesity and its associated metabolic disorders such as diabetes.
Characterising the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on physical and bio-chemical body processes:
The third major direction will set the basis of concrete cooperation with medical projects targeting the understanding of the impact of the progression of Alzheimer’s disease on physical and bio-chemical processes in the body. Thus, Physical GAs will capture objective physical and biochemical data from patients with brain disorders in an unobtrusive, comfortable and quasi-continuous way, according to medical community specifications.
Environmental Smart Autonomous Systems
Our environment impacts our health and our lives directly through the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the buildings in which we live and work. Many important factors cannot be noticed by humans at all; we have no biological senses for pollutants created by our industrialized world, since evolution will be slow to catch up. We need artificial “sixth senses” that assist our biological ones. The environmental Guardian Angels stand at the interface between people and their environment, providing relevant and real-time information, acting as personal assistants to guide, enable, and protect us all, and to make our lives more enjoyable as a result.
Smart air quality companion for indoors and outdoors:
Guardian Angels for disaster management:
Effective inclusion of visually impaired and blind people in society:
Visually impaired people are able to help themselves, yet supplying tools for orientation and information about what is going on in the surrounding environment will assist their full integration into society.
Emotional Smart Autonomous Systems
The goal of the Emotional Smart Autonomous systems is to sense the body’s reactions to one’s emotions or state of mind, correlated with environment and context, in order to provide objective and holistic information to improve services delivered to people, benefitting both society and the economy. These services can be targeted at enhancing the performance or well-being of healthy people, but also at supporting patients to ensure that they either live a life which is as normal as possible, or recover lost motor functions and cognitive abilities.
Enhancing the (emotional) performance or well-being of healthy people:
Supporting patients:
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