Wearable Internet of Things (wIoT) together with deep learning is revolutionizing the smart health and wellbeing applications. Predominantly IoT devices are good at acquiring medical data and later sending it cloud. Edge-based deep learning infuse intelligence in terms of processing, analysis and inference on edge near wearables. Edge deep learning not only offload the cloud but also ensure high-throughput, low-latency solutions.

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Our paper, “Energy-efficient and Reliable Wearable Internet-of-Things through Fog-Assisted Dynamic Goal Management”, authored and presented by Arman Anzanpour, received the best paper award at the 10th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2019), Leuven, Belgium. The abstract of the paper is available in the rest of this post.

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Our article, “IoT-Based Remote Pain Monitoring System: From Device to Cloud Platform”, was selected by the Editorial Board of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics to be published as the Cover Article. The cover image and the abstract of the paper are shown below:

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The interaction between technology and healthcare has a long history. However, the rapid growth of mobile and wireless technologies, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data, as well as the public embracement of miniature wearable biosensors have generated new opportunities for personalized healthcare services. The advantages of these services include the availability and accessibility, ability to personalize […]

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This Special Issue seeks selected manuscripts with major extensions for a Special Issue on the 7th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth), held from 14–17 November 2017, in Vienna, Austria. The 7th edition of MobiHealth proposed to continue and extend the focus areas of the first six editions with a focus on specific […]

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Two Internship positions are available in the Department of Future Technologies / Embedded Electronics: Internship position 1: Medical data analytics and IoT Required basic skills: MATLAB or programming skills (Python), knowledge in digital signal processing, machine learning and pattern recognition. Job description: Internet of Things enabled healthcare provides connection between things (i.e., wearable and environmental […]

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We are arranging a special issue in FGCS: Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Big Data for Smarter Healthcare: From Device to Architecture, Applications and Analytics http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-internet-of-things-and-big-data-for-smarter/   The interaction between technology and healthcare has a long history. However, the rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data, as well as the public embracement […]

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The annual IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances related to smart computing. The International Workshop on the IoT for Healthcare 2016 is a workshop, co-located with SMARTCOMP’16, that focus on the design, implementation, deployment, evaluation of distributed system platforms, algorithms for enhanced […]

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Vector ry has joined forces with the University of Turku to throw an IT-oriented seminar about all the things you can connect to the Internet! Our first annual seminar will take place on 16th of December at ICT-City. All of the presentations will be held in English. This Internet of Things -seminar is all about […]

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DELTA is a national doctoral training network, with distributed funding by the participating universities. The network organizes student workshops, summer and winter schools, visiting lectures, and supports its students in participating such events and conferences. This year, Department of Information Technology is organizing 2 days’ workshop on themes provided on the workshop flyer. Department of […]

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Internet-of-Things for Healthcare: Smart Architectures, Applications, and Microsystems Aim and objectives: The emerging field of internet of things holds a great potential to meet unmet needs of healthcare. However, to become applicable in clinical practice, IoT technologies demand research, development, testing, and trials, since these systems are intended to be a part of both hospitals […]

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Department of Information Technology, University of Turku is organizing a DELTA 2015 Summer School on Internet of Things for Health. This event will be carried out in collaboration with International Institute for Advanced Nursing Research, while one session on “Scientific Writing” (4th of June), both Nursing Science and Engineering students will be together in multidisciplinary research environment. VENUES 1. […]

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1) TRAINEE (1 student) Smart Pain Assessment Tool Based on Internet of Things Duties: In the near future, it is predictable that any gadget will be identified by a unique address. This will lead to an addressable sequence of computers, sensors, actuators, PDAs and mobile phones. As defined by European Commission Information Society, the Internet […]

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Special Session on Current Trends in Wearable Technologies, Body Sensor Networks and Internet-of-Things enabling Pervasive Healthcare held in conjunction with International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (BSN-MobiHealth’14). Due to enormous advances in sensing, computing and wireless communication technologies, we witness a plethora of pervasive healthcare (PH) systems around us that leverage smartphones, wearable […]

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