and entertainment. he vehicles with free wi-fi onboard arrive at stops frequently#from every 10-18 minutes depending on the time of day#
Watch Bill gates Drink Water From Human waste We know that Bill gates made a lot of money from Microsoft
I have visited lots of similar sites, like power plants and paper mills, so when I heard about this onet part of the Gates Foundation effort to improve sanitation in poor countries was eager to check it out.
Our goal is to make the processors cheap enough that entrepreneurs in low-and middle-income countries will want to invest in them and then start profitable waste treatment businesses.
a system of sensors and webcams that will let Janicki engineers control the processor remotely
and the reliability of climate information for the Mediterranean area and to communicate it in an effective way to local users.
Users then access the modelling results via CLIM-RUN web portal which relates the modelsresults to their specific industries and regions.
It aims to bridge the gap between users and climate services. To help users benefit as much as possible from the climate service,
the team also developed information sheets explaining how they produced their predictions and how to interpret the CLIM-RUN data.
English versions are available on the CLIM-RUN website, which will be online until at least 2017,
He declares the team will continue to distribute information to users even after the project stops maintaining the website.
User-driven design CLIM-RUN was unique in that it designed its service around user demands,
Using face-to-face meetings, surveys, social networking and workshops, the CLIM-RUN team asked potential users to identify the main types of information that would be most useful to them.
The energy industry particularly wind and solar energy tourism and wildfire prediction services emerged as the areas of strongest demand.
Target users told the team they were interested in predictions by season and decade up to 2050, allowing them to plan for natural variations in weather as well as variations due to man-made climate change.
CLIM-RUN FP7 project Youtube-Video Project details Project acronym: CLIM-RUN Participants: Italy (Coordinator), Cyprus, France, Spain, Germany, UK, Belgium, Croatia, Tunisia, United states Proj.
But what if sensors could harness energy directly from their environment from the sun, from ambient heat, from radio waves or vibrations?
And that is precisely what a team of EU-funded researchers are achieving in the SWAP('Symbiotic Wireless Autonomous Powered system')project.
and expertise to develop the next generation of innovative, autonomously powered wireless sensors. n recent years,
vibrations and radio waves The SWAP team are studying, testing and deploying novel technologies that enable sensors to use solar
and thermal energy as well as radio waves and vibrations to power themselves. They are focusing on making energy harvesters more efficient
The researchers are also developing intelligent algorithms (small programs) to efficiently manage the energy obtained from the environment.
The algorithms are used then with advanced signal processing techniques to reduce the amount of data that has to be sent for a given monitoring application.
and the industrial partners are incorporating the algorithms and hardware innovations into commercial products. In the longer term, Nicola Bui, the former CEO of Patavina Technologies, a project partner based in Italy,
It could deliver information to a single user, could have the opportunity to bring synergies across lots of systems,
The other screens can show different information, for example there is a 3d visualisation, all the terminal, indoor and outdoor, is modelled by one of our technological partners."
#Putting the citizen at the centre of flood prevention Social media has broken down barriers between information providers and consumers.
So far the project team has tested successfully the concept of engaging citizens to monitor water levels.
And one of the project partners is seeking to market a social media analysis tool developed by the team in 2013.
The advent of mobile phones and social media means that citizens can be fully active in capturing,
and sending information and images by phone. They can also help by reading existing sensors
which carries out large scale social media analysis to help emergency responders during large scale floods, found an application in monitoring large city wide events in England.
Peschl coordinated the XPRESS project-short for lexible Production Experts for Reconfigurable Assembly Technology. By designing assembly-line machines so they can perform on command not unlike robots that can follow verbal instructions factories can meet the rapidly changing needs of consumers and industrial customers
The XPRESS team has developed an intelligent machine called a anufactron. Peschl explains how the system works:
With XPRESS, the manufactrons receive information to drill a hole, and based on this information, the machine itself decides which kind of drill-bit to use and the speed of the drill.
In addition to aerospace, the XPRESS technology has also been tested in electronics, for manufacturing industrial switches; and in automobiles, for making car bodies.
XPRESS has shown that the time for setting up production lines can be reduced by up to 50 percent,
and that the new XPRESS technology can be woven into existing factories and machines. e have managed, for the first time,
Pooling their expertise, the group developed materials, software and procedures for building custom-made, biocompatible prosthetics using small-scale manufacturing techniques.
Access to the software for the process is simple Dr Hurtos says. ou just need internet access to an online platform where algorithms anonymise the medical images for confidentiality,
she says. Innovative polymers and ceramics and novel image-processing software from the project are already being commercialised.
Several of the companies involved in the project have taken out patents on their results, while breakthroughs in automatic manufacturing are expected to benefit other industries.
Image of blue skyscraper kiko-Fotolia. com The manufacturing of solar energy panels is therefore likely to grow into a significant industry,
which would enhance the manufacturing of solar energy panels, making them more efficient and less expensive than anything currently available.
whether the panels are deployed terrestrially or in space. Their significantly reduced weight is one clear benefit.
is expected to enable construction workers and surveyors to test for the mineral's presence in building and demolition sites.
ALERT project coordinator Alan Archer says the tool is expected to instantly give potentially lifesaving information about the levels of asbestos to people working on building and demolition sites
emergency services, asbestos removal and hazardous waste sites. ith ALERT tool, we can give 30 million European workers a means of detecting asbestos the moment it is disturbed,
biotechnology and information technologies to develop an artificial hand that patients were able to experience, to some degree,
The project biomedical engineers combined algorithms and statistical models to enable analysts to accurately predict the outcome of planned treatments for individual patients. here is quite often missing data.
and for end users, less maintenance, she concludes s
#Handy Robots Handy Robots The human hand, a masterpiece of evolution, has for a long time been impossible to recreate artificially.
In response, the EU-funded project Cablebot is developing a new-generation robotic system made up of a network of cables and computer-controlled winches capable of performing different maintenance steps during the life-cycles
The robots are controlled by cutting-edge software tools. The key to their flexibility is the ad hoc connection of diverse winches to different tools where they are put to use
The Cablebot team are also developing control algorithms and systems to operate the cable robots, according to industrial requirements.
Quality first MUPROD team has developed new software and hardware solutions which introduce several levels of innovation technological,
persistent multi-modal interfaces to the Internet')moves on from traditional task-based interaction to social interaction.
COMPANIONS sought to bring to the internet a tailor-made, conversational interface that recognises its user. A key component of the research was machine learning developing software with the ability to learn without explicitly programming it to modify the way it behaves.
The technology will be particularly beneficial for those living alone. More than a third those living in advanced societies will live alone by the mid-to late-2020s
of which 50percent will be pensioners. It will be particularly important for this group to have access to a virtual interactive companion
and act as an alternative access point to resources on the internet. The team English Companion is able to listen to long statements
or remarks in English and respond appropriately to what the user is saying. The Companion can also engage the user by responding,
expressing interest and empathy something the users often need to receive. This ability to express interest and empathy is new and exciting.
The Companion does this by analysing a person voice and the content of his or her dialogue before responding.
automatic speech recognition; natural language understanding; natural language generation; and text to speech synthesis. The Companion can be combined with current dialogue management techniques so as to deliver natural-sounding dialogue.
The Senior Companion is designed to engage users in dialogue on news, photos and funny stories. It can find tagged photos of users on the internet
and create a timeline bringing together life events and special memories. The Health and Fitness Companion focuses on improved wellbeing,
The Companion does not have to be accessed on a traditional computer. It can be used via a mobile phone
a computer shaped like a head or even a handbag, the team suggests. Project details-Project acronym:
COMPANIONS-Participants: United kingdom (Coordinator), Sweden, Spain, United states, France, Czech republic, Finland, Italy-Project FP6 34434-Total costs:#
#A machine which can read your mind e have developed so called brain-computer interfaces which allow the user to control different devices and programmes without hands, by means of the user thoughts.
That is how Christoph Hintermüller of the Project Management and Research team at g. tec Guger Technologies sums up a machine
which sit on the scalp translates user intentions into electronic commands. brain-computer interface captures various electrical impulses from the head of the user,
That allows the user to play an online computer game, hands-free. The user selects the commands by simply looking at the blinking arrows on the screen.
The frequency of the flashing is reproduced in the brain cortex and read by the electrodes. s soon as we have understood the electroencephalography patterns produced by the groups of neurons in the brain,
like a television or a motorised system for the home, said Arnau Espinosa Manzanal of the Research and development department,
A user can navigate through various on-screen menus by simply focusing attention on the commands.
This way even severely disabled people can compose text messages to communicate with others in social networks on the Internet.
Boston, on the east coast of England, is one of the main test sites for the new technology.
These indications can be followed in real time using any internet-enabled device. A touch screen panel installed in a Boston café allows the public to see how the system works.
If the artificial intelligence anticipates a breach, it sends a warning to the responsible services that may otherwise be unaware of the weakening within the flood defences.
Mark Robinson said: urrently we use a visual walkover. It means probably two or three times a year we got people viewing the asset the dam from a visual point of view.
The software calculates how fast the site will be flooded if the dam fails, and even suggests the best ways to move citizens into safer areas.
'the biological catalysts that help it decompose. For Europe packaging industry, such a recyclable product is important
and motion control programming. The partners involved in the project (most of which are SMES) will benefit
it provides the user with a basic kit which allows specific biological elements to be switched in or out.
thus be adapted according to whatever specific test the user wishes to conduct. ll the biology is contained in magnetic particles that we put in the system at the moment of operation.
the system can send immediate and personalised messages via SMS, email, voice messages over digital radio and Facebook alerts.
This helps the drug hone in on tumour sites, control the release of therapeutic compounds and enhance the efficiency of the treatment. he decorating of nanoparticles very tiny particles with cyclodextrins allows us to play with the functionality,
A fibre-optic grid monitors any deformations in the bag (signs of tearing or folding) during its sea voyage.
thus be built directly from the design model (CAD) with no need for a prototype stage
However, products in these sectors such as innovative display solutions and light emitting panels require the integration of different functionalities and demand new mass manufacturing methods and technologies.
Other innovations associated with the project include new self-assembling methods and interconnection based on ink-jet printing technologies.
the first industrial users are identified already, but ew partners are always welcome These partnerships could see Light-Rolls being involved in a myriad of sectors including automotive and building lighting applications, flexible solar cells and batteries and even consumer products and games.
A third recruit under the Marie Curie scheme was a software development specialist Nathan Brown.
After supporting the development of informatics at Avantium he moved to Novartis in Switzerland to expand the company's expertise and now works with the Institute of Cancer Research in London.
It is equipped with a sensor that accurately monitors the concentration levels of copper and silver ions in water sources and facilities
and information technology to establish an electrophysiology lab back at Szeged University (HU).""As a boy,
Firefighters will be able to use mobile devices to detect potential hazards before they enter buildings. Police can drive through cities and search for"meth labs"and marijuana operations.
The process involves single axis tracking concentrating collectors that essentially orient panels towards the sunlight.
#OXYMOD-Cleaner power thanks to mathematics Mathematical modelling has in recent years proven to be a useful and cost-cutting tool for designing and modernising coal fired power plants.
CFD model developers and users (Vattenfall Research and development AB, IVD Stuttgart, and the National Technical University of Athens);
processors of thermoplastic elastomers can obtain EPMT and turn it into products. Industrial companies whose work involves elastomers such as the industrial and construction sectors,
eat, talk on the phone, catch up on work, write letters or watch television, if they so wish.
If the lead vehicle has to turn, speed up, slow down or even brake suddenly, the action is sent instantaneously to the following vehicles,
#Building new plastics with smart software Chemists can help create a wide range of plastics from polymers,
To assist with this, the European union (EU)- funded NANOPOLY research fellows have developed a new software tool to model the polymer molecules on a nanoscale.
To create the software tool the researchers combined the strengths of various disciplines (from applied mathematics and software engineering to chemistry.
The project started when Christof Schütte, NANOPOLY project coordinator and professor at the Freie Universität Berlin,
and software company Cit about the need for modern software tools to design plastics from polymers. he new software tool helps us predict how different production processes affect the nanostructure of the polymers,
and lead to the creation of a new generation of researchers that are trained in mathematical and software modelling,
The innovative software tool was developed by researchers taking part in the EU Marie Curie programme of support for postgraduate fellows. he NANOPOLY project gave them vital training in complementary research fields.
The training helped build a mix of competences in mathematical modelling, software engineering, as well as polymer chemistry, explains Schütte.
which provides a very ductile connection and yields high safety-levels for infrastructure users. The Preco-Beam consortium invented a new shape for this composite dowel,
it also means we now only need days rather than months on site to erect the bridge."
and design rules via the Internet, and there are plans to use Preco-Beam for buildings.
The tags needed for Radio frequency identification (RFID) can be removed or altered. Laser marking might be the answerbut existing techniques produce microscopiccracks in the glass.
he says. rimary users are civil protection and planning authorities operating at a variety of scales, from urban to regional.
Software and know-how from the project is already generating new business for Europe's robotic industry.
milling, lathing or fashioning it into parts and tools for different uses from car panels to precision medical instruments to moving parts in a paintball gun.
Improvements in programming and simulation software were needed to ensure irst-time-right adaptive machining once production commences.
COMET has come up with an integrated programming and simulation environment (PSIR), as developed by partner Delcam,
and demonstrate on-and off-line software, and which draws on data, metrics, tools and programming supplied by different partners. ur partners have shown how joined-up thinking results in closer-to-market-ready adaptive control solutions for better industrial robots,
says Gunnink. Team members are joining forces with other EU and national project partners to explore new applications for COMET robotics solutions in fields such as grinding, abrasive finishing,
and laser and fluid polishing. he software Delcam developed under COMET is already generating up to a million euros in additional sales,
which has been developed by fellow project partner Nisaform into a functioning system that monitors (using the ATIR technology of partner NIKON)
More details about exploitable results like this can be found on the project website, including training materials on using robots for machining,
That includes defining the parameters of the software that plans each operation. One of the system innovative features is the feedback from the robot to the surgeon via the hand-held controller.
#HELIOS makes silicon breakthrough Experts from the Electronics and Information technology Laboratory of The french Atomic energy commission (CEA-Leti) and III-V lab, a joint lab of Alcatel-lucent Bell labs France,
a modulator and passive waveguides on silicon paves the way of further developments on integrated transceivers that can address several application needs in metropolitan and access networks, servers, data centres,
high-performance computers as well as optical interconnects at rack-level and board-level. We are pleased to bring our contribution to these state-of-the-art results
Available as a smartphone app, it a breakthrough that could save harvests, as well as trillions of litres of water wasted in world farming every year.
The new research harnesses technological advances in wireless networking, environmental sensors and soil water movement models.
which is developed why we a smartphone app. Thanks to sensors planted across the field, the Waterbee system can continuously monitor water movement in the root zone.
low power consumption wireless sensor network, sending the data to an intelligent web service software application for analysis. Once the numbers are crunched-taking due account for weather and other local parameters-it automatically activates the selected irrigation nodes in the areas
As it user friendly and doesn cost the earth, this could really change the way we farm
So this is the story of how research has managed to develop a serious videogame, for a serious purpose."
Patients are testing a videogame specially developed to help them to recognise their emotions and to regain self-control.
"The videogame is proving useful as a complimentary tool for some patients to control certain aspects of their personality, like impulsivity or tolerance to frustration."
"For instance, the videogame can teach my patient to raise her tolerance to frustration, to lose impulsivity
The same videogame helps them to relax their muscles, raise their exercise performance and maintain discipline in their training.
"The videogame has been developed under a European Research project called Playmancer. Game developers, psychologists and therapists worked together on tailoring the right scenarios for both pain rehabilitation and mental health treatments.
Videogames are entertaining and motivating, so we thought they can provide effective complimentary therapies in different diseases.
This videogame is like a bonding factor between patients and their therapists and doctors.""The search for videogame treatments to some psychological disorders proved to be specially challenging."
"At first I found it bizarre that my addiction to gambling could be treated with a videogame.
But after some sessions I understood the point. The videogame helps me to know my state of mind at any given moment.
For instance, it can help me to realise I'm becoming too nervous. So I can work on my own emotions to try to calm myself down".
"Indeed, the videogame identifies boredom, excitement or anxiety in patients-and their cognitive responses-with the help of emotion recognition technologies and biosensors.
We know from scientific literature that these online videogames are highly addictive to certain vulnerable users.
So we asked developers to just provide a simple videogame that a patient can play alone
Patients are supposed always to play the videogame under medical supervision. And this scientists say, is a huge difference compared to existing commercial videogames that already recognise users'movements."
"When you play a commercial game, there are, for instance, moves that you can fake. Because you are just using a console.
But here you can't fake the walking, you have to really walk. There is another difference:
"explains Stephanie Jansen-Kosterink So how long will it be before you can get a videogame prescription for certain mental disorders or physical rehabilitation?
The research proves therapeutical videogames can be useful for certain patients. Now scientists say it is up to policymakers to play the game.
The neugrid Consortium has built the core of the infrastructure (computational nodes, connectivity, middleware, and a set of core applications for image processing).
The DECIDE consortium has implemented onto neugrid a popular tool for the detection of a diagnostic marker for Alzheimer's disease based on PET imaging (gridspm.
N4u will develop the user-facing services of neugrid and a managing structure that will make it sustainable and profitable.
and Sophia-Antipolis (FR), leaders in the field of biomedical image processing and grid computing for biomedical applications.
and image dataset that is being collected Europe-wide can be exploited by a large neuroscience community through the application of sophisticated brain analysis algorithms.
with the required electronics and software being integrated eventually into clothes and clothing accessories. Researchers involved in the Biotex project in Dublin are searching for an appropriate method to analyse perspiration.
The data is sent then wirelessly to a computer. The prototype is a piece of fabric with a fluidic channel
The technology could also be applied to medicine, for example, to continuously monitor diabetics or cystic fibrosis sufferers.
The Wear It At work project in Bremen, Germany, is developing job-specific gadgets that they call wearable computing.
The possibilities include wireless communication between fire fighters sending images when visibility is extremely low and identifying toxic fumes in the air.
and from a computer just by wearing an electronic bracelet and belt. The PCB (printed circuit board) consists of a Bluetooth module, a small power supply unit,
interfaces connected to sensor modules and an RFID (radio frequency identification) reader. Information is collected from the RFID reader
and the sensors and sent via Bluetooth to a computer. One prototype is controlled a wristband by hand gestures.
It reacts to upwards and sideways movements recognising the speed of movement. The wristband has now been developed to react to micro gestures, after the larger,
less subtle movements during earlier testing made patients feel uncomfortable. The doctor, or any user of this technology, can receive the necessary information to support a primary task without further delays or interruptions.
There is great potential for a computer system where the conventional keyboard or mouse is rendered obsolete. The technology already exists.
It is now a matter of fine-tuning for general use at work and eventually at home
#European initiative spearheads medical advances Through the accomplishments of the Healthy Aims project treatments are emerging for the previously untreatable.
The Activity Monitor, developed in Codicote, north of London, is being used for sufferers of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or obesity.
and then analysed using specially developed algorithms. The Healthy Aims project, involving 25 partners from 10 countries,
is delivering many devices such as the Activity Monitor. An important theme of the project is the reproduction of electrodes
The system, named STIMUGRIP, uses accelerometers in a similar fashion to the Activity Monitor. When particular arm movements from the patient are detected by the accelerometers,
The external component consists of the microphones, sound processor and batteries, while the implant has the electronics that send the stimulation pulses.
Jobs will be created for the whole value chain from the initial biomass feedstock producers to the final end users.
Potential users of the new filter are not only in the world's poorest nations. Families on farms or not connected to town water in countries
the AMST project is developing a new generation of software. AMST stands for Advanced Multi-physics Simulation Technology, a type of software that can be used for a wide range of such complex processes.
Besides its versatile use, the software main advantage is its independence from any experimental conditions. Despite this, it has proven its ability to predict very detailed results.
Scientists and engineers then analyse the data obtained in great detail in order to unveil the underlying physics of the processes Involved with these theoretical insights complementing the empirical knowledge our understanding of multi-physics has been broadened considerably.
and the German SME inutech with its complementary expertise in designing software for multi-physics applications.
but instead of printing with plastics, it deploys edible ingredients squeezed out of stainless steel capsules:""It's the same technology,
pointing out that at least in the initial stage the printer will be targeted mostly at professional kitchen users,
and that it promotes healthy eating by requiring fresh ingredients prepared before printing. Nevertheless, the company is working with major food manufacturers to create prepackaged plastic capsules that can just be loaded into the machine to make food,
"There's a touchscreen on the front that connects to a recipe site in the cloud,
so it's an internet-of-things, connected kitchen appliance,"said Kucsma. Users will also be able to control the device remotely using a smartphone,
and share their recipes with the community. That is, if people don't balk at the idea of eating printed food."
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