Tag Archives: personal digital tiwins

I had the opportunity of joining a EU workshop focussing on Personal Digital Twins. In this, and in following posts, I will report part of the discussion, very interesting and informative in my opinion. The European Joint Research Centre -JRC- has become interested in Personal Digital Twins, and founded the …

Fitbit has signed an agreement with NASA to provide 1,000 of its Fitbit Charge 4 wearables to NASA personnel, including its 150 astronauts. The wearables will be connected to the Work Daily Check-in platform were data analytics will evaluate the probability that the data provided by the wearables signify a …

The evolution of healthcare in this decade will be sustained by the convergence of several technology areas, each progressing independently from one another under the pressure of demand from several markets: ambient, wearable and implantable sensors There are already millions of wearables in use that monitors some basic physiological parameters. …

The quest for new players Telecommunications biz was born as a vertically integrated sector. The separation between “Operators” and “Manufacturers” took place soon but the two worlds have remained closely interconnected. The ITU, International Telecommunication Union, saw the participation of both Operators and Manufacturers (the members of ITU, a branch …

Data are created by sensors and aggregated by the company (institution) that has an interest in those data (and probably owns/deployed the sensors). Data creation, as noted, is a fall out of the Digital Transformation, companies digitise their environment and create data that are used by them and can be …

The ongoing  epidemic is placing healthcare infrastructures under stress and unless it is absolutely necessary you are asked not to go to a hospital but stay isolated at home. Doctors will be providing support by phone, telling you what to do. Clearly, it is a different quality of care from …

Moving on with the other questions: 2. Will ‘digital twin’ thinking play a role in facilitating the Government’s office guidance and, if so, how? Several businesses are currently using sort of digital twins in profiling their customers. They trace their activity, perform data analytics on virtual communities (birds of a …

As I am writing this post there is an ongoing discussion on Italian newspapers on the extent to which it is reasonable to protect privacy rather than monitoring people movement to identify risk of contagion. Whilst just last week there was, at least on newspapers and on their reporting of …

2. There is a growth of Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS), basically resulting from the interconnection of several devices and systems in the medical landscape. As these devices and systems become smarter, able to acquire, process and make sense of data (through artificial intelligence) they are playing a bigger role in …

Although a full fledged epidemic control based on “personal Digital Twins” is still several years away, we can see that the approach of the South Korean government is along these lines. The Korean Center for Disease Control, KCDC, has organised an impressive collection of data from smartphones location (tracked by …