The Plenary Meeting of sustAGE was held virtually due to pandemic restictions on 15th of September 2021. All partners participated and discussed their progress across all WPs while they got updates from the latest Mid-Term review results.
An Event Collection Framework for IoT In sustAGE, event persistence, -collection and -postprocessing are critical activities in achieving the desired platform capabilities. In addition, as compliance with best practices and industry standards is desired, the platform's design is based on cutting-edge, industry-ready technologies and best practices from the field. An overview of [...]
INTERSPEECH 2021, an International Conference on speech processing and applications, took place in a hybrid format in Brno (Czech Republic) from 30th August to 3rd September 2021. Adria Mallol-Ragolta from the Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing at the University of Augsburg (EIHW-UAU), Germany, presented the paper “Cough-Based COVID-19 [...]
Introduction of assistive technologies in industry. Methodologies and experience of Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF) CRF has been working for years in the research of technological solutions for supporting workers, for instance in the modification of workstations and work methods or in the implementation of innovative tools, equipment, or exoskeletons. Innovation in this [...]
sustAGE was presented at PETRA2021 conference "PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments", 29th June - 2th July (virtual) by partner FORTH with a short-paper/poster titled "Detection of physical strain and fatigue in industrial environments using visual and non-visual sensors Download the poster here DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3453892.3461633 Online proceedings of the PETRA 2021 conference: [...]
A vision-based postural assessment approach for the unobtrusive detection of physical strain and the prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders in industrial environments Assessment and prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) is considered a common and critical task towards occupational safety and well-being in working environments Marlene Ferreira Brito, Ana Luísa Ramos, Paula Carneiro, [...]
Enhancing brain and cognition in the older workers The ageing of the population is pushing European Member States to support later retirement of their citizens. Ageing produces declines in a series of sensory, cognitive, and motor domains. The failure of these basic functions predicts difficulties in the performance of daily-living activities and [...]
The evaluation of the 1st integrated prototype of sustAGE started at Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF), Italy. In the first three days the assembly line workers were informed on the project evaluation activities to follow, familiarized with the sustAGE devices and they conducted the first set of questionnaires and psychometric tests with the support [...]
Low cost GNSS receivers for positioning and monitoring applications. The evolution of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) has already shown the wide range of applications that can be used and the revolutionary impact that has brought on positioning performance. Besides the increased number of satellites, every improvement in the accuracy of GNSS-based [...]
The evaluation of the 1st integrated prototype of sustAGE started at Heraklion Port Authority, Greece. In the first three days the port workers in smaller groups were informed on the project evaluation activities to follow and they conducted the first set of questionnaires and psychometric tests with the support of an expert [...]
