Micro-Nano integrated platform

for transverse Ambient Intelligence applications

Consortium

Acknowledgement
Supported by the European Commission through
the Sixth Framework Programme for Research
and Development up to 10.2 Me (out of a total
budget of 19.6 Me) the MINAmI project ad-
dress the area “Micro and nanosystems” of the
Information Society Technologies priorities.
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Project Coordinator:
STMicroelectonics : Mr. Jean-Louis Carbonero (+33) 4 76 92 64 29,
jean-louis.carbonero@st.com

Technical Manager:
STMicroelectronics : Mr Pascal Ancey (+33) 4 76 92 56 70,
pascal.ancey@st.com

www.fp6-minami.org
Operational management:
ALMA Consulting Group : Ms Radoslava Mitova (+33) 4 72 35 80 30,
rmitova@almacg.com
A European Integrated Project supported through the Sixth Framework
Programme for Research and Technological Development
MINAmI Project Potential Impact
MINAmI project addresses challenges related to the implementation of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) EU is confronted with significant changes arising from globali-
applications, where the personal mobile device acts as a gateway. MINAmI will expand the open sation and the challenges of new knowledge-driven economy,
technology platform developed in MIMOSA project and will demonstrate and validate new Ambient information and communication technologies have the potential
Intelligence applications. The centre of interest and the major innovative work in MINAmI are focused to enhance every aspect of people’s lives. In this way MINAmI
on the final concrete demonstrators for AmI, based on the development of an innovative state-of-the- will contribute to the European competitiveness by developing
art micro/nanotechnology technological platform. new competitive technologies and components almost “man-
datory” to realise the AmI vision. Moreover, the applications
The main technical innovation in MINAmI is in the actuators, including, 9D integrated Inertial Measurement developed in MINAmI can help not only to modernise the Eu-
development of: Unit and 3D distributed vision system ropean social model in terms of healthcare, leisure and work
• Mass-memory RF Tags based on low power innova- opportunities but also to promote and accelerate acceptance

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tive technologies In MINAmI, a global platform taking into account of AmI ideas in Europe. Last but not least, MINAmI will take a
• Event sensitive RF nodes including new-low-cost time the constraints of integration, industrialisation and holistic view of AmI, considering not just the technology but the
reference for time stamping function compatibility with advanced CMOS platforms whole of the innovation supply chain from usage and ethical
• Thin film rechargeable batteries and a wide range of will integrate these technologies. MINAmI links assessment to demonstration and validation of applications.
low-cost and low-power nano and micro sensors and demonstration, validation & exploitation.

MINAmI Vision Work Ethical issues

With the MINAmI Ambient Intelligence system, the physical environment can be loaded with interesting and context-
related information, easily and naturally accessible to the user. Information is in the tags and sensors embedded in
Organisation in MINAmI
physical surroundings and everyday objects, and it can be anything from sensor measurements from the environment Ethical concerns regarding the vision
or the user itself, to a piece of music or the latest news. The user can wirelessly access this information content by just
WP0 Management and products of the project as well as
touching or scanning close tags and sensors with their mobile phone. The phone also enables wireless connection the user evaluations carried out within
to the internet. As the interaction can be tied to a specific place, object, and time, the user is served with context- Demonstrators the project are dealt with the two-fold
related information and services. WP7 Specifications
WP1 & Scenarios
ethical management structure of MI-
NAmI.
Demonstrators developed in MINAmI Usage The project’s internal Ethical Committee
& ethical
reviews the user evaluation activities
Drugs monitoring and conditioning aims at in to various kinds of personal devices such as issues WP2 Architecture
carried out within MINAmi with re-
developing a smart pill box offering to patients mobile phones and multimedia computers (PDAs).
gard to ethical concerns. The Ethical
an alert service when their use of medication In the future, a multimedia memory Tag will even
Committee prepares and maintains
dangerously differs from the prescription. be embedded in magazines.
an ethical guideline document for the
WP3 WP4 WP5 user evaluations and deals with ethical
Health monitoring and homecare will Ambient sensors for friendly home
demonstrate the feasibility of an ultra light EEG applications will explore the feasibility of WP6 WP6 Technology problems that may come up during
& Integration the project work. The ethical concerns
data logger that can be downloaded every 24 extracting data from distributed vision sensors and Platforms
hours through a passive RFID link. which arise and their solutions are re-
other smart sensors to bring information to users
in home centric scenarios such as automation, ported annually.
Assistive listening device will show how security and homecare.
smart acoustic sensor arrays may help hearing WP1 WP7 Demonstration An Ethical Advisory Board includes
instruments users to focus on relevant audio data Virtual optical user interface will demonstrate Exploitation external experts of different fields of
(voice recognition, sound localisation). how small devices such as cell phones will be User ethics. The Ethical Advisory Board
evaluation identifies and evaluates broader ethical
able to become a gateway to AmI applications
Data downloading from passive tags will where a bigger screen and faster input device implications related to the project
demonstrate that people can consume a large may be required. The demonstration will be vision, goal, and products. The
amount of off-line digital data such as music, based on a tiny projection system that activates Roadmap for
exploitation
Board publishes Ethical gui-
videos, games etc. The data is downloaded an optical keyboard and/or a projected touch delines for mobile-centred
from a memory tag module to a reader module. enabled display. WP8 Ambient Intelligence.
Reader technology will eventually be integrated