14-10-2014
The EAR-IT project was honored to be selected to be featured on the Euronews chain program 'Futuris'. 'Futuris' provides the latest news about the leading scientific & technological research projects in Europe, Unlocking the secrets of research, science & technology. The first broadcast will be on the 13th of October at 17h45 and 00h45, with various repetitions during the week. It may be viewed online at the program website at: http://www.euronews.com/futuris, and in 14 different languages. At the same time, the European Commission published a journalistic piece about the project and its applications. The article, entitled "EAR-IT: Using sound to picture the world in a new way" (http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/ear-it-using-sound-picture-world-new-way) was advertised on CORDIS (http://cordis.europa.eu/stories/home_en.html), DAE (http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/newsroom/project-news-and-results/all) and also in the Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes website (http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/en). The article is written in English and is translated into Portuguese and also in over 5 languages (DE , IT , SP , FR , PL ). It has been tweeted in the official channels of the European Commission @DigitalAgendaEU and @netXperiment.
The EAR-IT project (http://www.ear-it.eu) is a EU FP7 co-funded project working over a two-years period (Oct'2012-Sep'2014) on the challenges of using acoustic sensing in smart cities and smart buildings. With innovation and research in this area, the project will experiment in the city of Santander (Spain) and for intelligent building in Geneva, applications improving security, energy saving, traffic management and more. The project idea will conduct a ‘real-life’ experimentation of intelligent acoustics for supporting high social value applications fostering innovation and sustainability. For such, the project takes advantage for two outstanding testbeds of EU FIRE initiative (http://www.ict-fire.eu): SmartSantander (http://www.smartsantander.eu) and Hobnet (www.hobnet-project.eu).
