“Invisible technology” creates solutions as the cradle that monitors … – Eastern Azores

A biometric crib for baby monitoring of vital signs or a smart footer with humidity sensor for detection of flooding are some of the prototypes that have emerged from the ‘Invisible Network’ project presented in Famalicão.

The idea is to put technology “inside” structures such as a floor, cork or concrete in a building or a floor, and furnishings, among other, and thus “create added value” to the product.

Take as example a crib that besides the “momentum” aims to help parents make the baby monitoring remotely via sensors that capture the temperature or movement for example allowing to know if the child is having a deep sleep or a more restless sleep.

Or a cork insoles with built-in sensors that detect the pressure that the foot is to exercise and can monitor it and save it for example to inform the doctor about to ride a typology that patient. Since the measurement of foot temperature through sensors can be useful to people with diabetes.

These and other solutions are today being presented at the Technology Center Textiles and Clothing (CITEVE) in Famalicão, Braga district and part of the ‘Invisible Network’, a project developed over the last three years and ended in March involving 11 partners from technology companies and industry groups to academia agents.

overall objective is “The development of a new generation of interactive products based on invisible computing concepts and ubiquitous computing “, described the coordinator of the ‘Invisible Network’, Inês Henriques, considering that” there was boldness in this project “, with” some products shipped for release in market. “

On the show also can be seen as invisible inks can in a museum for example, direct the visitor or explain particular work of art. Just the admirer point your phone to a surface containing such ink in is visible to the naked eye, so do not “contaminate” the space in which it is placed, and on your display you will see the information.

The first interactive concrete prototypes, or “concrete that responds to stimuli and feel”, is also evident in Famalicão, showing that a material often seen as “gray” may have an ecological function or even can ensure the safety of pedestrian that across the road is warned that it is near a car due to the fact that the concrete have ‘felt’ the vehicle approaching.

“It was created with this project a way to work and a community that open many possibilities in the future, “said Inês Henriques.

The Center for Nanotechnology and Materials Technical, Functional and Intelligent (CeNTI) which is also a partner of the ‘Invisible Network’, Braz Costa pointed out the” importance of the sum value to products “in competitive terms, a view shared by the President of Famalicão chamber, Paulo Cunha, who at the opening session spoke of this county as one of the” bet “on the establishment of companies through the” creation and conditions for economic actors go further and create wealth. “