sustAGE at the 12th FORTH Scientific Retreat sustAGE team member, Dr. Manolis Lourakis and the FORTH team introduced the technology that is being developed as part of the sustAGE project at the 12th FORTH Scientific Retreat with a poster presentation “Smart Technologies in the workplace: the sustAGE solution" Dr. Manolis Lourakis during the [...]
Article in ERCIM special theme “Smart Things Everywhere” The article “Supporting the Wellness at Work and Productivity of Ageing Employees in Industrial Environments: The sustAGE Project” has just appeared in ERCIM special theme No. 119. It highlights the vision of the sustAGE project in the two key industry domains and provides an overview of [...]
Play hard, work better. How to prevent employees’ cognitive decline trough serious games. The World Health Organization has suggested that the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years old will nearly double from 12% to 22% between 2015 and 2050 and the number of people aged 60 years and older will [...]
Data Processing and AI in Human-Centred Manufacturing Modern manufacturing- and shop-floor systems are equipped with sensors that constantly monitor production relevant KPIs by collecting huge amounts of data. Through the increase of performance of today’s computers and sensor devices over the past decade, this trend has been even increased as technical enablers [...]
sustAGE Technical Meeting at Heraklion Port Authority. The first technical meeting of sustAGE took place from the 23rd to the 25th of July 2019 at the Port of Heraklion in Crete. During the first day of the meeting, the participants visited the Commercial Port’s Free Zone during a vessel unloading operation. [...]
Human-Centered Manufacturing The manufacturing industry is going through a period of significant change, due to the massive introduction of new information and communication technologies (ICT) in the factory. In the industrial environment, this change is referred as a fourth revolution, identified with the name of "Industry 4.0". In this new context, production [...]
Environmental monitoring and IoT platforms Environmental monitoring encompasses a broad range of IoT applications that involve online monitoring of environmental parameters, such as temperature, humidity, noise levels, air pollutant concentrations, etc, that affect people’s safety and well-being, especially when it comes to work environments. Various sensors and smart devices can be exploited [...]
The second physical plenary meeting of sustAGE took place from 11th to 12th of April 2019 and was hosted at the Manufacturing Campus of the FCA Group (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Group) in Melfi, Italy. During the meeting, the progress within the first four months of the project across all workpackages was [...]
Preparations for the sustAGE Pilot Plant. Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas (FORTH) members visited the Commercial Port Free Zone of Heraklion Port Authority (HPA) to discuss installation aspects of the sustAGE system. Both sustAGE partners had a chance to investigate the premises and revise the desicions upon the equipment that will [...]
Active aging: Why training in Gerontology is important. Prof. Soledad Ballesteros Jimenez talks in Spanish National Public Radio 3 about sustAGE research project H2020, Master degree in Gerontology and Healthy Aging. The aging process is inevitable, but it is modifiable, the deterioration associated with age can be delayed. The Center for [...]
