[IEE EC3 News] Lecture reminder - Smart Homes - 24 November 2016

[Bill Pechey]

Dear Colleague,

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I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you
there.

You can download a poster from the following IET web page to display
in your place of work:

https://communities.theiet.org/files/12088

Best wishes,

Bill Pechey
IET Thames Valley Specialised Section

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100 SPHERE Homes: What can our homes tell us about our health and wellbeing?

Rachel King and Balazs Janko, University of Reading

Thursday 24 Nov 2016 19.00 for 19.30

Palmer Building, University of Reading RG6 6UR

The concept of the smart home has been widely portrayed in science fiction, and more
recently developed into test beds for research to monitor aspects of our lives including
healthcare. The EPSRC funded SPHERE project aims to go one step further and make the
smart home a reality for 100 homes as a test of demands and needs in healthcare. But just
what will be monitored and what can this tell us about our health and wellbeing? Using three
modalities of sensing technology including environmental, video, and wearable sensors the
SPHERE houses aim to collect an unprecedented set of natural home living data and use
machine learning techniques to relate these data to health specific signatures.

This talk, by two members of the SPHERE team, discusses their approach, applications,
results and opportunities for further work.

This event is free of charge and open to all, with refreshments at 19.00, lecture at 19:30.

Contact: Prof Richard Mitchell  rjmitchell at theiet.org http://www.theiet.org/ec3

For directions please visit http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.aspx