CUTLER project releases concept video

CUTLER,  a Research and Innovation Action project funded under the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union, has released its concept video.  CUTLER’s goal is to harvest the rich basis of data offered by the existing infrastructures for sensing the environment, the society and the economic activity, to build the data mining and visualisation tools for extracting actionable knowledge out of these…

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Distinguished Paper Award – Ubicomp 2019

Paper’s authors receive the Distinguished Paper Award, at Ubicomp 2019 (from left to right: Vassilis Kostakos, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Niels van Berkel (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Aku Visuri (University of Oulu, Finland).   Our paper entitled “Assisted Medication Management in Elderly Care Using Miniaturised Near-Infrared Spectroscopy”, by Klakegg et al. was the recipient of the Distinguished Paper Award, at the…

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PRINCE project Kick-off Meeting

The European and Development Program Management Office (EDPD) of the Ministry of Citizen Protection in Athens, Greece organized the inaugural meeting of project PRINCE – Preparedness & Response for CBRN-E INCidEnts,  which took place on May 27, 2019. The project involves the development of new methods for the prevention, investigation, training and preparation to deal with chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear…

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PRINCE Project attends toxic gas mass casualty field trial organised by the TOXI-Triage project in Mikkeli, Finland

PRINCE project PI Panos Kostakos, at the Centre for Ubiquitous Computing, attended the gas attack exercise on the Mikkeli market on the 22nd May 2019. Part of the H2020 TOXI-Triage project, the field trial tested, amongst other features, a respiratory gas analyser and a device for detecting toxic chemicals and gases. The simulation required the cooperation between authorities, involving a…

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