{"id":83,"date":"2023-10-28T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T09:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2023-10-28T18:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T16:11:32","slug":"project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Wearable computing systems (WCS) <\/strong>are distributed systems of body-worn, computational, connected and sensor-based devices that collect physiological and behavioral data from users as well as contextual information from the environment. Thanks to their effectiveness and versatility, WCS have found diversified <strong>cyber-physical applications<\/strong>, including healthcare, assisted living, fitness, smart factories, and entertainment.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former WCS (2000-2015) were based on wireless Body Sensor Networks (i.e. purposely designed programmable body sensors) with fixed or portable devices acting as base station; these solutions often resulted in resource-limited platforms, closed environments, operating stand-alone. More recently (>2013), with the diffusion of Cloud Computing, commercial wearable solutions have been implemented atop proprietary platforms: this allowed a gradual introduction in the market but hindering WCS from unleashing their full potential. Indeed, current WCS show several limitations: commercial platforms for wearable-enabled services are centralized, closed and often smartphone-dependent, thus resulting in vertical solutions with poor programmability, privacy and smartness. In fact, available Advanced RISC Machine \/ Microcontroller (ARM \/ MCU) based wearable devices do not have enough computing power to perform complex operations and WCS cannot prescind from Cloud Computing and its inherent drawbacks (privacy, responsiveness, etc).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make WCS truly smart and Cloud\/smartphone independent, <strong>COCOWEARS <\/strong>will define a framework for <strong>Computing Continuum WEARable Systems<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COCOWEARS relies on 3 pillars:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>sound <strong>theoretical foundations<\/strong> (including a hardware\/software system co-design methodology based on simulations), <\/li><li>tailored <strong>Artificial Intelligence\/Machine Learning<\/strong> (AI\/ML) algorithms, <\/li><li><strong>development tools <\/strong>aiming to enable the engineering of next-generation WCS. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The synergic exploitation of these pillars upon <strong>Field Programmable Gate Array<\/strong> devices (FPGA, due to their proven acceleration capabilities of AI\/ML algorithms, despite their reasonable cost and dimensions makes COCOWEARS a holistic framework pursuing an innovative device-centric, yet device-independent, engineering approach. Indeed COCOWEARS promotes on-device intelligence at an unseen level but also enables a computing continuum, by pushing low-priority, more complex\/global analytical tasks far from the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COCOWEARS represents the first solution fully exploiting AI technologies at different levels of granularity, complexity, and user proximity, able to push towards a massive adoption of WCS in the immediate future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable computing systems (WCS) are distributed systems of body-worn, computational, connected and sensor-based devices that collect physiological and behavioral data from users as well as contextual information from the environment. Thanks to their effectiveness and versatility, WCS have found diversified cyber-physical applications, including healthcare, assisted living, fitness, smart factories, and entertainment. Former WCS (2000-2015) were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.dimes.unical.it\/cocowears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}