Title:

Internet of Things for Healthcare and Smart Cities  

 Time:

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 (10th of Shahrivar) 14-15:30

at

School of Computer Science and Engineering (main theatre room) , Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract:

Digital data and the connected worlds of physical objects, people and devices are rapidly changing the way we work and interact with our surrounding environments. New technologies have a profound impact on different domains, such as healthcare, environmental monitoring, urban systems and control and management applications, among others. However, these large volumes of heterogeneous data require new methods of communication, aggregation, processing and mining in order to extract efficient and actionable information from the raw data. This talk will focus on Internet of Things technologies and will discuss the opportunities and challenges involved in using large-scale data analytics in smart city and healthcare applications and services.

The talk will also discuss the National Health Services (NHS) funded Internet of Things project for dementia care, called TIHM (https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/test-beds/tihm/). It is estimated that there will be one million people with dementia in the UK by 2025. Beyond those directly affected, dementia also has a much wider impact on carers, families and health and care services, with social isolation being a key confounding factor. The TIHM project focuses on building the technical and physical infrastructure for an Internet of Things framework to support dementia care and remote monitoring. TIHM uses distributed and secure technologies to capture, analyse and manage the data in order to provide real-time and actionable information to different support groups in dementia care – i.e. clinical, social care, and patients (whenever and wherever appropriate).  TIHM brings together a team of health and care experts, innovation and SMEs with network-enabled products and services and academic and research groups with healthcare, economy and technical expertise to show case the use and effect of the connected technologies in healthcare scenarios.

Biography:

Payam Barnaghi is a Reader in Machine Intelligence at the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS) at the University of Surrey. He is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy and an associate editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. He was a guest editor of a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems on Web of Things and a special issue of IEEE Internet Computing on Physical-Cyber-Social Computing. He is principal investigator and scientific coordinator of the EU FP7 CityPulse project (http://www.ict-citypulse.eu) on the Internet of Things and smart cities. He is also the technical lead for the National Health Services (NHS) funded Internet of Things project for dementia care (https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/test-beds/
tihm/). His research interests include machine learning, Internet of Things, semantic web, information centric networks, information search and retrieval and their applications in healthcare and smart cities.

http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/P.Barnaghi/