Donostia-San Sebastián, 10 June 2020
Lifesaving technology for those charged with saving lives
The European Project SIXTHSENSE on health monitoring with sensory feedback for enhanced situational awareness was launched in Donostia-San Sebastián on May 19-20, 2020
On May 19 and 20, the kick-off meeting of the EU-funded project SIXTHSENSE – “Smart Integrated eXtreme environmenT Health monitor with Sensory feedback for ENhanced Situation awarEness” took place in the virtual space shared between nine participating countries. The project is a multidisciplinary innovation and research action with the overall aim of developing a wearable health monitoring system with closed loop tactile biofeedback, that allows first responders in hazardous situations to sense their current health status. It will allow early detection of risk factors that could lead to rapid deterioration of health or operation capabilities of first responders, by leveraging predictive models based on multimodal biosensor data (e.g., lactate, Na, K, HR, temperature). As a team management tool, it will enable real-time monitoring of all deployed operatives, helping increase team effectiveness and operational safety.
To help accelerate the pace of technological advancements aimed at first responders, beyond the scope of the project, SIXTHSENSE will establish a novel research methodology for sustainable inclusion of first responders in a co-development process.
SIXTHSENSE is funded withing the EU Horizon 2020 programe as a 36 months project, with the overall funding of €7.242.442,5. The project consortium comprises 21 organisations from nine European countries, coordinated by TECNALIA Research & Innovation (Spain). The project consortium comprises three universities: Aalborg Universitet (Denmark), Universidad de León (Spain) and Technische Universitaet Chemnitz (Germany); five European Research and Technology Organisations: TECNALIA (Spain), Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft (Austria), BioNanoNet Forschungsgesellschaft (Austria), Eucentre Foundation (Italy) and Tecnalia Serbia (Serbia); two large industry representatives: Jobst Technologies (Germany) and Methrom DropSens (Spain); and five SME partners: Senetics healthcare group (Germany), TeleGroup (Germany), Smartex (Italy), Global Electronic Solutions (Serbia), BiFlow Systems (Germany) with different areas of expertise. The project also counts active participation from first responders organisations, as Serbian Mountain Rescue Service, Association of Mountain Rescue Organizations of B&H and four fire fighter companies with different profiles from Gumpoldskirchen (Austria), Postojna (Slovenia), Rijeka (Croatia) and Pavia (Italy), and a fire rescue training and risk management experts – IFR (Austria).
Building upon the experience of the FP6 PROETEX Project, the role of EUCENTRE within the project is that of defining requirements for novel devices and sensors from first responders side, designing the information flow and its features, engage first responders and taking care of prototypes testing both in lab and on field testing, in collaboration with favia firefighters.
For further information see the project’s website: https://sixthsenseproject.eu/
Project Coordinator: Goran.Bijelic@Tecnalia.com
International Business Development Manager
TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Gipuzkoa
Mikeletegi Pasealekua, 2
E-20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN – Gipuzkoa (SPAIN)
Institutional contact: manager@partner.sixthsense
