Advanced observation and telemetry heart system utilizing wearable ECG device and a Cloud platform

Short lived chest pain episodes of post PCI patients represent the most common clinical scenario treated in the Accidents and Emergency Room. Continuous ECG monitoring could substantially diminish such hospital admissions and related ambulance calls. Delivering community based, easy-To-handle, easy to wear, real time electrocardiography systems is still a quest, despite the existence of electronic electrocardiography systems for several decades. The PATRIOT system serves this challenge via a 12-channel, easy to wear, easy to carry, mobile linked, miniaturized automatic ECG device and a Cloud platform. The system may deliver high quality electrocardiograms of a patient to medical personnel either on the spot or remotely both in a synchronous or asynchronous mode, enhancing autonomy, mobility, quality of life and safety of recently treated coronary artery disease patients

Digital twins from smart manufacturing to smart cities: a survey

Digital twins are quickly becoming a popular tool in several domains, taking advantage of recent advancements in the Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Big Data, while being used by both the industry sector and the research community. In this paper, we review the current research landscape as regards digital twins in the field of smart cities, while also attempting to draw parallels with the application of digital twins in Industry 4.0. Although digital twins have received considerable attention in the Industrial Internet of Things domain, their utilization in smart cities has not been as popular thus far. We discuss here the open challenges in the field and argue that digital twins in smart cities should be treated differently and be considered as cyber-physical "systems of systems", due to the vastly different system size, complexity and requirements, when compared to other recent applications of digital twins. We also argue that researchers should utilize established tools and methods of the smart city community, such as co-creation, to better handle the specificities of this domain in practice.This work was supported in part by the Project ‘‘I3T—Innovative Application of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in Smart Environments’’ (MIS 5002434) implemented under the ‘‘Action for the Strategic Development on the Research and Technological Sector,’’ funded by the Operational Programme ‘‘Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation’’ (NSRF 2014–2020), and in part by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund)

A Study on Indoor Noise Levels in a Set of School Buildings in Greece utilizing an IoT infrastructure

Monitoring noise pollution in urban areas in a more systematic manner has been gaining traction as a theme among the research community, especially with the rise of smart cities and the IoT. However, although it affects our everyday life in a profound way, monitoring indoor noise levels inside workplaces and public buildings has so far grabbed less of our attention. In this work, we report on noise levels data produced by an IoT infrastructure installed inside 5 school buildings in Greece. Our results indicate that such data can help to produce a more accurate picture of the conditions that students and educators experience every day, and also provide useful insights in terms of health risks and aural comfort.Comment: Preprint submitted to the WSACC 2023 workshop, organized in the scope of the 9th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference 202

A methodology for the selection, assessment and analysis of successful experiences

Embedded systems and industrial informatics represent two areas with significant research results of quite high added value. Transformation of such results into innovative products and services increases competitiveness and represents, through the enhancement of the citizens' quality of life, a pay back to the society of research funds. This transformation has not been always straightforward. Learning from successful experiences is important. The present work elaborates a methodology for the selection, assessment and analysis of successful experiences related to this transformation of research to innovation. © 2012 IFAC

WidetheSEE – Gateway for Solar Thermal Energy Exploitation

The present paper intends to present the partial results obtained by implementation of the first project pilot of the WidetheSEEbySuccMod project, a project financed by European Union through South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Program. “Let the Sun Shine In!” campaign started in February 2011 in Romania, aiming to raise aware-ness of population from Caras Severin County and enlarge it to West-ern part of Romania regarding the use of this friendly source of energy in general and the DHW installations in particular

Ontology-Based Flexible Multi Agent Systems Design and Deployment for Vertical Enterprise Integration

Part IV: ICT and Emerging Technologies in Production ManagementInternational audienceEmpowering autonomic control in the enterprise environment highly contributes in the quest for a higher level of flexibility. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) may be utilized to this end along with the enterprise environment model leading to a decentralization of the manufacturing production processes. The current work proposes a framework along with the necessary software tools for the modeling of MAS through ontologies, its design and deployment in the enterprise / manufacturing environment