ICT Supporting Energy Provision and Management   BioMOBIUS™

ICT Supporting Energy Provision and Management	back to top

The ‘Global Energy Challenge’ is widely accepted as being one the most critical facing humanity. Growing CO₂ emissions driven by increasing Carbon supplied energy demands are having a serious and detrimental impact on our planet through changes to our atmosphere and therefore climate. Leaving aside the negative impact on climate the Earth has limited and unsustainable resources of Carbon based fuels. Europe has been to the fore in meeting this critical challenge and is increasingly recognized as a lead player in finding global solutions.

ICT can play an enormous positive role in addressing this ‘Global Energy Challenge’. There are two identifiable ways that ICT can help, built around the 2%-98% paradigm – ICT systems cause 2% of World CO₂ emissions while ICT can support reduction in the other 98%.

1. 2% ICT Challenge!
   Continue to develop higher energy efficiency in ICT systems in order to maintain or reduce energy consumption even for significantly increased computing and communications traffic.
2. 98% ICT Challenge!
   Develop solutions based on the greater integration of ICT into other sectors to reduce the 98% of total energy consumption.

This ‘Global Energy Challenge’ will be addressed in a workshop format and will involve interested parties from the worlds of ICT and Energy provision and management (both sides for ICT-Energy partnership). The objectives will be to explore improved partnerships in Europe that will drive the ICT-Energy challenge agenda forward.

Attendance
There is no fee for attendance at the workshop. Attendee’s however must pre register. Please confirm your interest in attending the workshop by email to: brian.quinn@intel.com

BioMOBIUS™ Workshop	back to top

The TRIL Centre* will hold a half day BioMOBIUS™ Workshop as part of the conference. The BioMOBIUS™ platform is a closely integrated collection of hardware and software components. The platform supports the rapid deployment of biomedical applications in a drag and drop graphical programming environments that require the collection of a wide variety of datasets such as physiological and/or kinematic data. BioMOBIUS™ can be readily used in a variety of settings, ranging from research laboratories to people’s homes. The BioMOBIUS™ research platform is aimed at researchers, clinicians and therapists who need, in the course of their work, to monitor and analyse the activity or other physiological characteristics of their patients or research subjects. This workshop will focus on the new features and enhancements of the forthcoming BioMOBIUS™ 2.0 release.

Contents
The workshop will be a mixture of class materials, practical demonstrations and hands on sessions. The hands-on sessions will cover the following topics using the BioMOBIUS platform

• Hardware interfacing with BioMOBIUS™ e.g. X10
• Database support ODBC, SQL Lite, etc.

Prerequisites
A working knowledge of BioMOBIUS™ version 1.0 would be advantageous.

Attendance
There is no fee for the workshop. Attendee’s however must pre register for the workshop. Please confirm your interest in attending the workshop by email to: Michael.j.mcgrath@intel.com