DISTRIBUTED MULTI-SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR HUMAN SAFETY AND HEALTH

We are surrounded by a variety of more-or-less intelligent technical devices, designed to serve you us orothers. Applications onin your mobile phones, wrist-worn health sensors on your wrists, autonomousvacuum cleaners, robots on the factory floor and increasingly autonomous cars – all pledge to ease yourtasks and keep usyou safe and healthy. SThe seamless interplay with these devices gets gainsmoreimportane as these devices proliferate and grow in t with the increased autonomy and pervasive presenceof the devices. We expect continuously available support fromin the services they provide − yet we wantthem to disappear unobtrusively in the background when not needed.In order to provide support in a collaborative environment with human, physical and digital players, thetechnology needs to be equipped with senses to grasp human presence, their mental and physical state, theiractivities and their intentions. This is required to ensure human safety, safeguard their health, and allow fornatural interaction.This project intends to improve sensing of human presence, behaviour and health in a collaborativeor common environment by means of multi-sensor systems.