NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
“ My hope is that engineers and technologists , female and male , play a more prominent role in shaping the world ' s future ”
PROF EIMAN KANJO TITLE : PROFESSOR OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING & HEAD OF SMARTSENSINGLAB . COM
INDUSTRY : HIGHER EDUCATION LOCATION : UNITED KINGDOM
PROFESSOR EIMAN KANJO PROFESSOR OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING & HEAD OF SMARTSENSINGLAB . COM , NTU
Smart Sensing Lab builds systems and digital tools for social good , such as wearables and smart devices , working with end user organisations such as hospitals , local authorities , and charities to help them to solve real world problems .
An early version had already been field tested in Nottingham but we are here to officially launch version 2.0 at Highbury Mental Health Hospital in the city .
The lab ’ s Tag With Me platform was used in as part of the world-first 5G Connected Forest project ( the famous Sherwood Forest ( of Robin Hood fame )) that brought that story and habitat to life . The first deployment was at Rufford Abbey Country Park to encourage people to be more active , which is when the conversation started with the hospital to encourage both service users and staff to walk the mile-long ( Highbury Mile ) route around the grounds .
“ We built a platform and on top of this you could build different layers , different applications ,” says Prof Kanjo . “ So we started with the park to keep people physically active , and then another one for the hospital to improve patient well being by keeping them active . We could also adopt it for schools and education , to allow children
EXECUTIVE BIO
Prof Eiman Kanjo is a Professor of
Pervasive Sensing at the Computer Science department , and the Smart Sensing lab lead . The Smart Sensing team has , under her leadership , won the 2021 Vice-Chancellor ’ s Outstanding Researcher Team Award . Eiman has been selected among the Top 50 Women in Engineering by the Women in Engineering Society . She is the NTU-Turing Network Development Award Lead funded by Alan Turing Institute . Eiman conducts research in Mobile Sensing , Digital Health , and wellbeing . Eiman has developed a new IoT-AI Technological platform to improve wellbeing and increase physical activities “ www . TagWithME . com , which is currently hosted by Rufford Country Park and Highbury Mental Health Hospital . She has been PI or Co-I on grants worth over £ 15mn , funders including DCMS ( 5G Connected Forest , £ 10m project in collaboration with Nottingham County Council and many industrial organisations ), InnovateUK , SBRI , DSTL , ERDF , MoD , Lottery Fund . She works closely with charities , local authorities , Police & industry . Previously , Prof . Kanjo worked for more than three years as a Research Fellow at the Computer Laboratory , University of Cambridge . Prof . Kanjo carried out research work at the MRL ( Mixed Reality Lab ), Computer Science Department ,
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