SENSATION

Advanced sensor development for attention, stress, vigilance & sleep/wakefulness monitoring

Action Line: Micro and nano-systems

Coordinator
Contact Person:
Name: BEKIARIS, Evangelos
Tel: +30-2310-498265
Fax: +30-2310-498269
Email: abek@certh.gr
Organisation:
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS
6TH KM CHARILAOU-THERMI ROAD
PO Box 361
57001   THERMI-THESSALONIKI
GREECE
 

Sleep loss, excessive fatigue, stress and inattention constitute the social diseases of our century. Within the "24 hour society" people tend more and more to exchange sleep and serenity for gain or pleasure. This gradually leads to an excessive rate of sleep disorders, roughly 20% of the population suffer from one, at least mildly or temporarily, as well as to a boom of stress and anxiety related diseases. In addition, a significant percentage of severe traffic and industrial accidents seem to be caused by the involuntary human transition from wakefulness to sleep or by prolonged inattention. SENSATION aims to explore a wide range of micro and nano sensor technologies, with the aim to achieve unobtrusive, cost-effective, real-time monitoring, detection and prediction of human physiological state in relation to wakefulness, fatigue and stress anytime, everywhere and for everybody. Thus, the different states of human brain are analysed within SubProjectl. Big databases with recordings of normal and involuntary (during task-execution) transition from wakefulness to sleep from hundreds of people will be created to serve as development and reference basis. In Subproject 2, 17 micro sensors and 2 nano sensors are developed. They include brain monitoring, wearable, eye-related posture and motility and autonomie functions sensors; all wirelessly integrated through a body/local/wide area network. These sensors are combined into medical systems for medical diagnosis and treatment within Subproject 3. They will be also integrated in a system for operator's hypovigilance detection and prediction, to be used in various industrial operations and environments within Subproject 4. The overall IP is coordinated by a series of cross-project activities within Subproject 5, which cover management, training, system architecture, dissemination, evaluation, exploitation, user awareness enhancement, standardisation, ethical and legal issues.

Project details
Project Reference: 507231 Contract Type: Integrated Project
Start Date: 2004-01-01 End Date: 2007-12-31
Duration: 48 months Project Status: Execution
Project Cost: 16.85 million euro Project Funding: 10.00 million euro

 

Participant Organization: TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND Country: FINLAND
Participant Organization: UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART Country: GERMANY
Participant Organization: DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. Country: GERMANY
Participant Organization: DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG Country: GERMANY
Participant Organization: THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Participant Organization: ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI Country: GREECE
Participant Organization: ATMEL GRENOBLE SA Country: FRANCE
Participant Organization: KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET Country: SWEDEN
Participant Organization: UNIVERSITAET BASEL Country: SWITZERLAND
Participant Organization: UNIVERSITY OF MALTA Country: MALTA
Participant Organization: PHILIPPS-UNIVERSITAET MARBURG Country: GERMANY
Participant Organization: OESTERREICHISCHE STUDIENGESELLSCHAFT FUER KYBERNETIK Country: AUSTRIA
Participant Organization: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS Country: CHINA
Participant Organization: STATENS VAEG- OCH TRANSPORTFORSKNINGSINSTITUTET Country: SWEDEN
Participant Organization: TYOETERVEYSLAITOS Country: FINLAND
Participant Organization: SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE Country: FRANCE
Participant Organization: POULIADIS ASSOCIATES CORP Country: GREECE
Participant Organization: MEDCARE FLAGA HF Country: ICELAND
Participant Organization: KITE SOLUTIONS S.N.C. DI ING. CARLO MAURI E DR. NADIA CACCIABUE Country: ITALY
Participant Organization: INSTYTUT MEDYCYNY DOSWIADCZALNEJ I KLINICZNEJ IM.MIROSLAWA MOSSAKOWSKIEGO POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK Country: POLAND
Participant Organization: UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY Country: AUSTRALIA
Participant Organization: SMART EYE AB Country: SWEDEN
Participant Organization: STARLAB BARCELONA SL Country: SPAIN
Participant Organization: GTD SISTEMAS DE INFORMACION SA Country: SPAIN
Participant Organization: MICROVITAE TECHNOLOGIES Country: FRANCE
Participant Organization: FORMATION ET RECHERCHES EN NEUROSCIENCES APPLIQUEES A LA PSYCHIATRIE - FORENAP Country: FRANCE
Participant Organization: HAUTE ECOLE SPECIALISEE DE LA SUISSE OCCIDENTALE Country: SWITZERLAND
Participant Organization: CAMBRIDGE NEUROTECHNOLOGY LIMITED Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Participant Organization: MEDCARE AUTOMATION BV Country: NETHERLANDS
Participant Organization: TECMIC - TECNOLOGIAS DE MICROELECTRONICA, S.A. Country: PORTUGAL
Participant Organization: THE SIESTA GROUP SCHLAFANALYSE GMBH Country: AUSTRIA
Participant Organization: INESC - INOVACAO - INSTITUTO DE NOVAS TECNOLOGIAS Country: PORTUGAL
Participant Organization: PSICHOFIZIOLOGIJOS IR REABILITACIJOS INSTITUTAS Country: LITHUANIA
Participant Organization: ATC ROM SRL Country: ROMANIA
Participant Organization: INSTITUTO DE APLICACIONES DE LAS TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION Y DE LAS COMUNICACIONES AVANZADAS - ITACA Country: SPAIN
Participant Organization: UNIVERSITAD DE BARCELONA Country: SPAIN
Participant Organization: NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Country: GREECE
Participant Organization: INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS Country: GREECE
Participant Organization: UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID Country: SPAIN
Participant Organization: CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SOCIETA CONSORTILE PER AZIONI Country: ITALY
Participant Organization: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE Country: FRANCE
Participant Organization: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA - RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT Country: SWITZERLAND

RCN: 71264
Last updated: 2004-05-20