NEXT PERCEPTION

Next generation smart perception sensors and distributed intelligence for proactive human monitoring in health, wellbeing, and automotive systems.

This project will bring perception sensing technologies like Radar, LiDAR and Time of Flight cameras to the next level, enhancing their features to allow for more accurate detection of human behaviour and physiological parameters. Besides more accurate automotive solutions ensuring driver vigilance and pedestrian and cyclist safety, this innovation will open up new opportunities in health and wellbeing to monitor elderly people at home or unobtrusively assess health state.

To facilitate building the complex smart sensing systems envisioned and ensure their secure and reliable operation, the new Distributed Intelligence paradigm will be embraced, enhanced and supported by tools. It leverages the advantages of Edge and Cloud computing, building on the distributed computational resources increasingly available in sensors and edge components to distribute also the intelligence.

The goal of this project is to develop next generation smart perception sensors and enhance the distributed intelligence paradigm to build versatile, secure, reliable, and proactive human monitoring solutions for the health, wellbeing, and automotive domains.

The project brings together 43 partners from 7 countries. The partners are major industrial players and prominent research centres and universities and will address top challenges in health, wellbeing, and automotive domains through three use cases: integral vitality monitoring for elderly and exercise, driver monitoring, and providing safety and comfort for vulnerable road users at intersections.

This project resorts under the ECSEL joint undertaking and is co-funded by the EU H2020 programme under grant agreement 876487 and national funding agencies in Belgium, Czech republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Spain.