Safe and Effective Multi-sensory Personal Aids in the IoT Age

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This program targets decentralized Internet of Things (IoT), with emphasis on human health applications built by our quality-driven design of multi-sensory wireless systems. We will explore the use of novel hybrid system optimization and verification methods, as well as the emerging fields of computing, such as the imprecise, in-memory, reversible or quantum computing. ******The long-term goal entails the personalized medicine systems, where sensors collect the data on major physiological state variables to personalize medicaments, exercise and nutrition dosing, leading to precise control that reduces widespread adverse effects, especially for chronic conditions. ******Short-term goals include the quality-driven design of dependable systems, the development of health/lifestyle testbeds and the design of machine intelligence accelerators for distributed, privacy-preserving human activity recognition (HAR) and ambiental intelligence, to harness the carefully designed new capabilities of the devices embedded in the edge of the network. The systems for chronic health conditions (diabetes, respiration) and aging will be tuned to improve or obviate the separately undertaken human trials. ******While current IoTs often employ centralized architectures relying on cloud, considerable decentralization is needed for health applications that generate large amounts of data used by the diverse stakeholders. Ensuring proper data handling is currently costly, as common IoT platforms often become security targets, which especially endangers privacy in health and lifestyle applications. Even the mature privacy and security schemes fail when billions of IoT devices enter the market, so improvements will be studied. ***Besides the assertion-based quality assurance, monitoring and verification techniques, we will explore the repudiation-free blockchain for feasible trust mechanisms in massive networks of IoT devices used in healthcare and lifestyle. The low-power, scalable blockchain technologies will be considered that allow the realization of electronic health records addressing the challenges of providing the trusted prescriptions, medicaments and sensor data in the exchange between medical practitioners, pharmacies, insurance companies and patients, such that no faulty data hinders the health/lifestyle regimen. ******Research focus on the usability and continuous service quality improvements of IoT for healthcare will be hence combined with the security and privacy concerns. Future-proofing of the research will include the quantum computing-resistant security schemes and scalable reversible circuit synthesis, with benefits ranging from energy-efficiency to intelligence, safety and privacy preservation. ******The program will form a substantial pool of highly sought-after industrial and academic leaders in broad areas of computer, software and complex heterogeneous systems engineering.