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SENSE - a roadmap for the ideal low light level sensor development (SENSE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

...available devices for research projects is unfortunately standard.The project’s objectives are to(1) conduct the development of a European R&D roadmap towards the ultimate low light-level (LLL) sensors, and to monitor and evaluate the progress of the developments with respect to the roadmap,(2) coordinate the R&D efforts of research groups and industry in advancing LLL sensors and liaise with stra ...
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Sensor Enabled Affective Computing for Enhancing Medical Care (SenseCare)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

...ect brings together a diverse group of subject matter experts from industry and academia under one umbrella, with the main aim of enhancing and advancing future healthcare processes and systems using sensory and machine learning technologies to provide emotional (affective) and cognitive insights into patients well-being so as to provide them with more effective treatment across multiple medical d ...
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Microscale Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents (MICREAGENTS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

...omponents to ensure autonomous action of millions of these "very smart chemicals", including electronic logic, supercapacitors for power, pairwise coupling for communication, programmable chemical sensors and electronic actuation of chemical processing. Key examples of MICREAgent actuation are to reversibly switch their association, load or dose chemicals, modify surfaces, initiate reactions and c ...
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WeSenseIT: Citizen Observatory of Water (WESENSEIT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

...ining social networks like Twitter and Facebook, as well as bulletin boards, RSS feeds, etc.).(ii) the development of descriptive and predictive models and decision-making tools integrating sensor and citizen-based data; the data suppliers (physical sensors or people) are seen as nodes of an integrated heterogeneous data collection network which undergoes progressive multi-objective optimization a ...
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FLEXIBLE SENSOR CO-OPERATION FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS/PROGNOSIS (WIRELESS-FLEX_SENSE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

...res rapid and early detection of structural degradation. A potential approach is to monitor structural degradation in real-time, including damage/facture due to unforeseen circumstances, by deploying sensors and efficient/effective wireless mesh networks throughout the structure. This proposal addresses the development of suitable combinations of sensors to monitor damage and their prediction dur ...
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Breaking the Barrier on Optical Integration (BBOI)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...ectures well beyond the state of the art, but without increasing power consumption in proportion.A full-optioned multifunctional silicon photonic platform will be developed integrating on board novel sensor and actuator technologies for a reliable real-time monitoring, tuning and reconfiguration of the circuit behaviour. Lighpaths will be inspected in strategic points of the circuit through novel ...
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COST-EFFECTIVE SENSORS, INTEROPERABLE WITH INTERNATIONAL EXISTING OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS, TO MEET EU POLICIES REQUIREMENTS (COMMON SENSE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

...n of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and other EU policies (e.g. Common Fisheries Policy), providing easily usable across several platforms, cost-effective, multi-functional innovative sensors to detect reliable in-situ measurements on key parameters by means of methodological standards. This proposal will focus, by means of a multidisciplinary and well-balanced consortium on eutrop ...
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Training & Research Involving Polymer Optical Devices (TRIPOD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The project is located in the field of optical fibre sensors - an area where Europe has developed internationally competitive research and commercial activity. The aim is to significantly extend the range of application of optical fibre grating sensors by developing a mature version of the technology in polymer optical fibres and thereby increase European competitiveness.Polymer fibres offer some ...
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Interoperability Profiles for Command/Control Systems and Sensor Systems in Emergency Management (C2-SENSE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Effective management of emergencies depends on timely information availability, reliability and intelligibility. To achieve this, different Command and Control (C2) Systems and Sensor Systems have to cooperate which would only be possible through interoperability. However, unless standards and well-defined specifications are used, the interoperability of these systems can be very complex. To addre ...
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Plant movements and mechano-perception: from biophysics to biomimetics (PLANTMOVE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2020,

...thin the plant and what is the role of the water pressure in this long-distance signalling. (ii) How plants sense and respond to gravity and how this response is related to the granular nature of the sensor at the cellular level. (iii) How plants perform rapid motion and what is the role of osmotic motors and cell wall actuation in this process, using the carnivorous plant Venus flytrap as a parad ...
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ChiplEss MultisEnsor Rfid for GrEen NeTworks (EMERGENT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

...oves its steps forward to actually support and facilitate the movement of skilled people between academia and industry committed to work on a research topic dealing with green chipless RFID tags and sensors.EMERGENT will move towards strengthening of existing inter-sectoral networks between the three EU research institutes and the three EU SMEs involved by implementing a total of 68 knowledge tran ...
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Everyday Life Radar Sensors For Transportation (ELIRAD)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

Everyday Life Radar Sensors For TransportationIn the project ELIRAD we plan to further develop a cutting-edge radar sensor from the feasibility demonstration level to industrial readiness and maturity for market introduction. The developed sensors will support disruptive transportation applications and emerging markets. High-precision distance and velocity sensing is essential for a great variety ...
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Sense&React – The context-aware and user-centric information distribution system for manufacturing (Sense and React)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

The number of sensors and the amount of data gathered on the factory floor constantly increases. This opens the vision of truly connected production processes where information is exchanged seamlessly and in real time between humans, machines and the produced goods.However, it is a long way before the huge amount of information gathered and generated in separate disconnected sub-systems is present ...
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Ribo-regulators that sense trace antibiotics (DrugSense)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...bliges food manufacturers to test for antibiotics traces in their products, but current technologies for antibiotics sensing do not provide a complete solution. There is a strong need for antibiotics sensors that would accurately, rapidly and inexpensively report on the presence of antibiotics in various environments. In our ERC-StG project we discovered new RNA leaders (ribo-regulators) that sens ...
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Smartphone-based Mobile Positioning System (SmartPosition)

Start date: May 2, 2016, End date: Nov 1, 2017,

...ifficult or even impossible and the use of conventional filters/smoothers is challenging or even infeasible. Secondly, the data is very rich in the sense that it comes from multiple and many types of sensors with improved scanning frequency and accuracy. The rich sensor data can be used to circumvent poor background knowledge and to provide a greater breadth of observation regardless of individual ...
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A Rapid Point-of-Care Breath Ammonia Sensor for Diagnosis of Helicobacter Pylori (AM-SENSE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Helicobacter pylori is classified by the World Health Organisation as a carcinogen leading to gastritis and gastric cancer, the second most lethal cancer. The biggest challenge is to identify the infection at an early stage and give a more complete intervention as more than 85% of infections are asymptomatic. This makes screening/ testing an important primary action in combating H. pyrlori and its ...
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InCa - Cardio Watch for Continuous Intra-Cardiac Blood Pressure Sensing (InCa)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

... growing number of people developing obesity.Early death and rehospitalization can be reduced dramatically, when the progress of the heart disease is monitored continuously with a wireless pressure sensor, permanently implanted in the patient’s left heart ventricle or left atrium. The implant can provide physicians with detailed real-time information about the patient’s vital functions (intra-card ...
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RESOURCE-EFFICIENT SENSING THROUGH DYNAMIC ATTENTION-SCALABILITY (Re-SENSE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2022,

...o stand on one leg if we close our eyes. We have trouble tasting food without smelling. And when we talk with other people, we observe their lips to understand them better. We, humans, are masters in sensor fusion as we can seamlessly combine information coming from different senses to improve our judgements. Intriguingly, in order to fuse information efficiently, we do not always devote the same ...
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Gamification of EcoDriving Behaviours through Intelligent Management of dynamic car and driver information (GamECAR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...self and their own bodies, thus turning eco-driving into an immersive and highly motivating experience. The sensing infrastructure of GamECAR will not only acquire data related to driving from an OBD sensor that will capture a complex set of parameters related to eco-driving, but will also sense environmental and physiological parameters of the driver, so as to better position the state of the sys ...
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Sense, Inform, Act, Notify - Commercialisation of the world's smallest, easiest to use, most reliable, longest lasting, Semiconductor based Wireless Sensors (SIAN)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Disruptive Technologies develops wireless sensors communicating with the Internet and the sensors have unique characteristics in terms of size, range and battery capacity. IoT networks deploying large numbers of sensors, maintenance and battery replacement are labour intensive and uneconomical - our robust sensor overcomes these issues. To enable full use of our sensors, our product suite includes ...
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Developing new drone-based gas sensing technology to characterise fire emission plumes by miniature low cost sensors (FIRE-PLUME-SENSE)

Start date: Jan 9, 2017, End date: Jan 8, 2019,

...ensing technologies for environmental monitoring, specifically to characterise the complex pollution (CO, CO2, NOx, O3 etc) plumes from wildfires. It builds on the success of these low-cost miniature sensors recently demonstrated by the ER and her industry collaborator in volcanic plumes, combined with Host expertise on fire science and remote sensing geography and partner expertise in drone appli ...
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SENSors and Intelligence in BuLt Environment (SENSIBLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

... sense occupants’ behaviour inside and outside the building and provide timely response and feedback.The proposal will tackle the above challenges through several routes: (1) new information-driven sensor designs that connect technology with people and information; (2) new Internet-of-Everything based communications protocols for seamless distributed detection and estimation; (iii) intelligent dat ...
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Making Sense of Nonsense (iSense)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description The emergence of networked embedded systems and sensor/actuator networks has made possible the collection of large amount of real-time data about a monitored environment. In many cases the collected data may be incomplete, or it may not make sense, thus compromising the sensor-environment interaction and possibly affecting the ab ...
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Cognitive and Flexible learning system \noperating Robust Interpretation of Extended real sceNes \nby multi-sensors Datafusion (Co-FRIEND)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

...tificial cognitive vision system, identifying objects and events, and extracting sense from scene observation. It will manage uncertainty and change, and will create analysis meaning. A heterogeneous sensor network (wide angle and PTZ cameras in airport immediate area, and GPS wide area vehicle monitoring) will be deployed on Toulouse AIRPORT by SILOGIC and READING. The cognitive capabilities deve ...
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A sophisticated multi-parametric system for the continuous-effective assessment and monitoring of motor status in parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases (PERFORM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2011,

...(PD). The PERFORM project aspires to research and develop an innovative, intelligent system for monitoring neurodegenerative disease evolution through the employment of a wide range of wearable micro-sensors, advanced knowledge processing and fusion algorithms. Advanced sensors, attached to everyday personal gadgets (e.g. cloths, accessories) will be able to 'sense' the user's behaviour and motor ...
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BIOmimetic Technology for vibrissal ACtive Touch (BIOTACT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

...l develop novel biomimetic computational methods and technologies for active touch sensing. The project is inspired by the functionality, morphology, and neural processing architectures of biological sensory systems that use tactile hairs known as whiskers or vibrissae. It will focus on two animals that are tactile specialists--the Norwegian rat and the Etruscan shrew. Both species make actively-c ...
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COMMOM MECHANISMS UNDERLYING CANCER AND AGEING (CANCER&AGEING)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

...ing of the tumour suppressors p53, p16INK4a, and ARF, particularly in relation with cellular senescence and aging. The current project is motivated by two hypothesis: 1) that the INK4/ARF locus is a sensor of epigenetic damage and this is at the basis of its activation by oncogenes and aging; and, 2) that the accumulation of cellular damage and stress is at the basis of both cancer and aging, and ...
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Feedback design for wireless networked systems (FeedNetBack)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

...rful devices that communicate with one another, sense and act on their environment and are deployed in large numbers to deliver an abundance of data. Such devices and the networks they form (wireless sensor networks) bring together communication, computation, sensing and control and have enabled monitoring and automation at an unprecedented scale. Specially challenging in this context are networke ...
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Smart Monitoring of Historic Structures (SMooHS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2011,

...e environment to the structure or the structural material is often unaccounted for. That means that the structural resistance is just calculated from the measurements and not determined by sufficient sensors. Another aspect is the fact that most monitoring systems require cabling, which is neither aesthetically appealing nor in some cases applicable due to the needed fastening techniques.The propo ...
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OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF EXPLOSIVES (OPTIX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

...ives. In order to meet the end user’s needs, OPTIX will develop of a transportable system for the standoff detection and identification of explosives in real scenarios at distances of around 20 m (sensor to target), using alternative or simultaneous analysis of three different complementary optical technologies (LIBS, RAMAN, IR) and with the following characteristics:• Standoff distance of at lea ...
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WIDE spectral band & WIDE dynamics multifunctional imaging SENSor Enabling safer car transportation (2WIDE_SENSE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...f casualties due to road accidents by the end of 2010. Improvements on road safety are achievable increasing the EU market penetration of eSafety systems, currently limited by performance and cost of sensor technologies.According to ICT-2009.6.1, 2WIDE_SENSE addresses research challenges in the area of "Intelligent Vehicle Systems for further improving road safety ... This includes advanced in-veh ...
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Providing Aerospace Structures a Sixth Sense (PASSS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2010,

...nts is, in many cases, one of the most valuable pieces of health monitoring information and this can be obtained from a reliable strain measurement system. Electrical strain gauges and optical strain sensors each have their merits and limitations for providing a strain measurement and a combination of both is likely to be required. The first part of the project identifies applications for SHM stra ...
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"OXY-SENSE - A biosensor, image analysis, and work flow system platform for the study of neuronal injury and assessment of cellular bioenergetics" (OXY-SENSE)

Start date: Aug 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

"Cellular bioenergetics play a key role in the pathogenesis of acute and chronic neurological disorders. Novel sensors and analytical systems in combination with biomedical imaging can provide powerful new insights into the role of cellular bioenergetics in the propagation of disease states. OXY-SENSE is an Industry-Academia partnership of experienced neuroscientists, experts in optical oxygen sen ...
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Platform for Opportunistic Behaviour in Incompletely Specified, Heterogeneous Object Communities (POBICOS)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

...mplementation of the middleware on embedded motes, and (c) application testing, deployment and monitoring tools. The major S&T objectives are: (a) ontology-driven, multi-resolution representations of sensor/actuator resources, (b) abstractions for physical node transparency, and (c) mechanisms for application deployment and monitoring, ensuring security and privacy. The domain of home automation a ...
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A Nanoscale Artificial Nose to easily detect Volatile Biomarkers at Early stages of Lung Cancer and Related Genetic Mutations (LCAOS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

...ding signals.Validation will be carried out by clinician partners and professional mathematicians and computer scientists. Resources will also be allocated to ensure the commercial potential of the sensor device layout.
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Cooperative Situational Awareness for Wireless Networks (COOPNET)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

...nd to sense their surroundings. We are currently approaching fundamental limitations in terms of communication throughput, position information availability and accuracy, and decision making based on sensory data. The goal of this proposal is to understand how the cooperative nature of future wireless networks can be leveraged to perform timekeeping, positioning, communication, and decision making ...
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Determination of the sensing and transcription mechanisms of bacterial metal sensors using pulsed EPR (METAL ION SENSORS)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

In this proposal, Dr. Ruthstein and her new group at the chemistry department in Bar-Ilan University, Israel, will determine the sensing and transcription mechanisms of metal ion sensors in bacteria. Metals are commonly found as natural constituents of proteins; however, many metal ions can be toxic when free in biological fluids. Hence, microorganisms have evolved considerable regulatory machiner ...
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A bio-mimicry enabled artificial sniffer (SNIFFER)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

...oses a highly innovative one-stop shop approach to complement dogs and leverage their capabilities. This approach is based on state-of-the-art technologies centred on a new generation of olfactory biosensors. The SNIFFER devices to be developed combine in a one-stop shop sampling, pre-concentration and pre-treatment with bio-mimicry, synthetic diamond sensor technology and multi-parametric trainin ...
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immersiVe ENhancemenT of User-woRld Interactions (VENTURI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

...aware AR system, through a seamless integration of core technologies and applications on a state-of-the-art mobile platform. VENTURI will innovate and enrich contextual awareness: exploiting a richer sensor set and innovative sensor fusion to extract multi-depth context: at home/on the move; user type and level of activity; noisy urban/quite countryside; smart object/other user proximity. Respondi ...
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Image supramolecular binding processes on the molecular level by STM for fundamental understanding sensor (See 2 Sense)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Nov 3, 2014,

The goal of the project is to image supramolecular binding processes on the molecular level with the purpose to gain fundamental understanding of how a sensor operates. This understanding will subsequently be applied as a basis for new sensor design.Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) will be used to visualize single molecule binding events of analyte molecules to receptor molecules adsorbed at a ...
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