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NL-JP Joint Initiative for the Innovation in Radar Sensing for Human Health Monitoring

We organised a joint seminar on September 1-2 together with colleagues from the Kyoto University and Osaka University. This was supported by NWO and the JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) under the joint Cooperation Seminars Scheme, with a grant awarded to Dr Francesco Fioranelli (MS3) and Prof Takuya Sakamoto (Kyoto University), and also supported by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).

The purpose of the joint seminar was to bring together researchers from Dutch and Japanese institutions and foster cooperation around the broad topic of contactless sensing and monitoring technologies for human healthcare. Specifically, contactless sensing and monitoring technologies of our interest are based on radar systems employing radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic (EM) waves to measure physiological phenomena of interest related to human healthcare, including but not limited to patterns of activities of daily living, quality of walking gait, tremors in limbs, and vital signs such as respiration, heartbeat, blood pressure and arterial pulse. 

It was a pleasure to host Prof Sakamoto and his team with us, and we hope to repeat the nice experience soon!