The projects “Baby Night Watch” and “Smart PV System” were chosen for the Top 20 in the framework of the TI’s Innovation Challenge (TIIC): European Design Contest 2015.
The project “Baby Night Watch” consists of creating a Wearable IoT Device which is able to measure the baby’s vital signs during sleep, aiming at signalling possible indicators of a sudden infant death syndrome occurrence. The device uses textile technology for measuring heart rate and a small node to measure position, temperature and respiratory rate. It then sends information to a cloud generating alerts. The information is stored and can be accessed through a web interface. The project team is composed by Jorge Cabral (coordinating professor, from the Department of Industrial Electronics) and the students Sérgio Branco, Duarte Fernandes, André Ferreira, João Lage, from the integrated master programme in Industrial Electronics and Computers Engineering, and Rubén Carvalho, from the master programme in Design and Marketing.
The goal of the project “Smart PV System” is to develop a system to manage electrical energy produced from photovoltaic (PV) panels for electrical equipment powering. This systems allows optimising electrical energy obtained from PV panels, controlling battery charging to store energy needed during nigh time or periods of lower solar exposure, and also converting the obtained energy to power electrical equipment. The team is composed by Ricardo Vieites Gomes, Delfim Duarte Pedrosa, Ana Filipa Ferreira, Fábio André Fernandes and Tiago Gomes Alves, all students from the integrated master programme in Industrial Electronics and Computers Engineering.
The TIIC competition is promoted by the European University Programme, created by TI in 1994. The programme aims at facilitating the inclusion of world-class embedded processing and analogue technologies into electrical engineering research and course curricula. Each of the Top 20’s teams wins a monetary award. The TOP 4 will be announced until the 31st October 2015 and the selected teams will be invited to participate in the TIIC 2015 Award Ceremony, in Munich, Germany, on the 3rd November.
The project “Baby Night Watch” consists of creating a Wearable IoT Device which is able to measure the baby’s vital signs during sleep, aiming at signalling possible indicators of a sudden infant death syndrome occurrence. The device uses textile technology for measuring heart rate and a small node to measure position, temperature and respiratory rate. It then sends information to a cloud generating alerts. The information is stored and can be accessed through a web interface. The project team is composed by Jorge Cabral (coordinating professor, from the Department of Industrial Electronics) and the students Sérgio Branco, Duarte Fernandes, André Ferreira, João Lage, from the integrated master programme in Industrial Electronics and Computers Engineering, and Rubén Carvalho, from the master programme in Design and Marketing.
The goal of the project “Smart PV System” is to develop a system to manage electrical energy produced from photovoltaic (PV) panels for electrical equipment powering. This systems allows optimising electrical energy obtained from PV panels, controlling battery charging to store energy needed during nigh time or periods of lower solar exposure, and also converting the obtained energy to power electrical equipment. The team is composed by Ricardo Vieites Gomes, Delfim Duarte Pedrosa, Ana Filipa Ferreira, Fábio André Fernandes and Tiago Gomes Alves, all students from the integrated master programme in Industrial Electronics and Computers Engineering.
The TIIC competition is promoted by the European University Programme, created by TI in 1994. The programme aims at facilitating the inclusion of world-class embedded processing and analogue technologies into electrical engineering research and course curricula. Each of the Top 20’s teams wins a monetary award. The TOP 4 will be announced until the 31st October 2015 and the selected teams will be invited to participate in the TIIC 2015 Award Ceremony, in Munich, Germany, on the 3rd November.