Infosys Partners With Netherlands' Commit On SENSEI Project To Help Create Healthier Societies
Infosys today announced a major four-year strategic partnership with COMMIT, a public-private research community in the Netherlands, to help create healthier societies across the world.
- (1888PressRelease) November 19, 2013 - Amsterdam, Bangalore - Infosys will bring its widely acknowledged technology leadership and financial investments to COMMIT's Sensor-based Engagement for Improved Health (SENSEI) project as part of a wider consortium of partners. COMMIT's SENSEI project aims to promote a healthier society globally through the use of an engaging smartphone application that enables users to exercise more efficiently.
Highlights
-Infosys will draw on its proven technical expertise in sensor networks, complex event processing, security and velocity data management to enhance SENSEI's smartphone application and ensure that it is as effective as using a personal trainer
-The application delivers personalized coaching guidelines on a user's smartphone based on factors such as current vital statistics, exercise regime, long- and short-term medical history, location, diet habits, and weather conditions
-Infosys and COMMIT will collaborate to enable the application to access a wide variety of data sources beyond traditional exercise parameters such as mood recognition, speech analysis and also social content analysis from the user's Facebook and Twitter accounts. These insights will be used to design a more accurate and effective fitness regime
-The partners will work with specialist sports schools and experts from diverse fields such as human movement and media interaction professors, fitness coaches, and sports and nutrition professors in continuing to develop the solution
-Infosys will also provide systems integration and overall program management for the project
Quotes
Prof. Dr. Ir. Arnold Smeulders, Chairman of COMMIT:
"In this phase of the program, it is essential that COMMIT spreads its wings in the world. Infosys is the ideal partner to achieve this, as it opens many worlds where technology blends with use. Their expertise in understanding users across cultures can now be combined with the scientific skills of COMMIT to create new types of solutions for practical use. In today's world, that combination is the right way to go."
Subu Goparaju, Senior Vice President and Head of Infosys Labs:
"The SENSEI application will not only help people exercise effectively but will keep them exercising for longer durations, while avoiding injury through overexertion. Infosys Labs, the research and innovation arm of Infosys, will offer cutting-edge expertise and technology to help bring this project to life - particularly in the areas of sensor data security and modeling. We anticipate this project will have a huge, positive impact on users around the world, helping them to stay healthy."
About COMMIT
COMMIT is a Netherlands use-inspired fundamental ICT research program based on a public-private partnership paradigm uniting academic research and (non-)profit organizations. Funded by the Government of Netherlands with €50 million and with a total revenue of €110 million, COMMIT is the leading public-private ICT research community focusing on solving grand challenges in information and communication science for tomorrow's society. Ten universities, five technological institutes, and over sixty small and large businesses participate in sixteen publicprivate multiparty projects. The results transcend considerably beyond state-of-the-art knowledge transfer in an economic or societal urgent area.
The COMMIT community brings together leading researchers in search engines, parallel computing, databases, interaction in context, embedded systems and knowledge technology. The ambition of COMMIT is the creation of focus and mass for solving societal problems and seizing socio-economic opportunities. COMMIT considers this a two-way alley: Like ICT science drives the solving of societal challenges, societal challenges inspire ICT research as well. COMMIT partners will rise to a higher level in science, and at the same time they will be steered in their selection of problems by their high-tech partners. Simultaneously, high-tech companies will be made more competitive by tapping into a shorter time-to-market of new ideas proven to be robust in this program.
About Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions. We enable clients, in more than 30 countries, to stay a step ahead of emerging business trends and outperform the competition. We help them transform and thrive in a changing world by co-creating breakthrough solutions that combine strategic insights and execution excellence.
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