EKRUCAMI

Europe-Korea Research on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence

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'This proposal deals with Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) and Ambient Intelligence (AmI) in medical, smart meeting rooms and agriculture monitoring. This technology has huge potential as it could facilitate new applications and services in a wide range of fields – from ensuring security and environmental monitoring, promoting personal productivity and enhancing national competitiveness, monitoring human physiological data, supporting medical diagnosis, smart buildings (e.g. indoor climate control) among others. This project is a multidisciplinary initiative based on a balanced exchange of scientists with a balanced level of expertise among four research organizations, two European and two South Korean, with international recognition on UbiComp and AmI. The EKRUCAmI project has defined as main objectives: - Build a lasting R&D network that will be open to other participants outside the current consortium in the future, focusing on the better understanding of UbiComp and AmI and its applications - Training new researchers in UbiComp and AmI areas, promoting an international cooperation approach and new research/application fields focusing the industry requirements - Supporting the exchange of ideas and techniques not only within the project consortia but also involving the industry and end-users from the three countries, in order to promote applied research and new project pilots development, technology transfer and, if feasible, the launching of new spin-offs; - Enhance the career development of a series of gender-balanced early stage researchers; - Facilitate capacity building activities for researchers from Europe and the Third Party Country; - Developing new techniques able to provide effective solutions to current problems in Healthcare and Agriculture; This buildup of such a tight network of activities and exchanges will ensure a long lasting impact on Health and Technology for the countries involved in this program.'

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European-Korean collaboration in the fields of ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing promises to rapidly advance the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Ambient intelligence, which enables people to smartly interact with objects, devices and computers of the physical world, promises to facilitate our lives through the IoT. Such technology must, however, be able to discern the needs of people, forecast their behaviour and customise their requirements. The EU-funded http://www.ekrucami.ipp.pt (EKRUCAMI) (Europe-Korea research on ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence) project has brought together European and Korean stakeholders to advance ambient intelligence in exciting new ways.

Currently in progress, the project is building a sustainable network for research and development that will eventually invite other global players to participate in refining this technology. It is training researchers in ubiquitous computing and adaptation modelling language to further its aims, supporting knowledge exchange and technology transfer. The final objective is to develop novel solutions to challenges in health care and smart rooms, as well as in group decision support and in the agri-food industry.

Already, the project team has articulated viable solutions and models for ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. It conducted two workshops in South Korea and Spain to further its aims, establishing collaboration with major universities in both these countries and in Portugal. EKRUCAMI has produced over 60 publications on the topic, reaching 40 scientific journals.

The project expects to develop models and architectures that will further ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing considerably, bringing civilisation much closer to a more efficient IoT. Testing is ongoing in different environments, attracting the attention of many small and medium-sized enterprises both in Europe and in Korea. The results will not only help usher in a brave new age of technology, but will have beneficial effects on the economy through innovation and competitiveness.