Damien Hanyurwimfura
Project Investigator: | Dr. Damien Hanyurwimfura |
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PI Profile | Dr Damien Hanyurwimfura is an Associate Professor and the Acting Director of the African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things (ACEIoT), College of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda. |
Title of the project: | Development of a Smart Wearable Device for Real-Time Risk Monitoring of Infectious Virus Spreading: Case Study of Covid-19 |
Type of the project: Postdoc/research award , cooperability, academia-industry, etc | Academia - industry |
Partners: | NARADA ltd |
Team members: | Dr. Damien Hanyurwimfura, Dr Jimmy Nsenga, Habiyaremye Joseph, Desire Ngabo, Dr Masabo Emmanuel |
Project amount: | 60,000,000FRW |
Funder: | National Council for Science and Technology (NCST) | Project period: | 2 years | Short description of the project: | The objective of the project is to control and minimize the virus spreading. Through prototyping a smart wearable device relying on Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to provide real-time context-aware and personalised monitoring of potential health-related symptoms and surrounding environment parameters. |
Project status: | ongoing |
Type of the Project: National or International : | International |