
Identification & Background
Project name: NanoID – Nanomaterials applied in the muscular rehabilitation of IDosos using Artificial Intelligence
Project code: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046985
Main objective: Strengthening research, technological development and innovation
Intervention Region: Continental Portugal
Beneficiary entity(s):
INOVA+ – Innovation Services, S.A. (project leader)
Universidade do Minho
IPB – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
MORE – Laboratório Colaborativo Montanhas de Investigação – Associação
Pafil – Confecções Lda.
Nelson Azevedo – Terapias Globais Unipessoal Lda.
Date of approval: 29-07-2021
Start date: 01-07-2021
Completion date: 30-06-2023
Total eligible investment: €1,405,485.10
Eligible investment MORE CoLAB: 127.377,78€
Financial support from the European Union | ERDF: 999.317,65€
The NanoID project aims to develop a rehabilitation sweater for the elderly (a wearable), based on intelligent textiles that integrate a set of sensors and actuators with multiple functions at the level of rehabilitation. The sweater, with a nice and ergonomic design, will be equipped with dry and flexible (nano)sensors based on thin (nano)structured films, with the ability to monitor various physiological parameters, including body temperature, heart beat and electrical muscle activity. The array of sensors/ actuators of this wearable will be remotely controlled by specialized medical centers that, through a system of Artificial Intelligence, interpret the data collected while rehabilitating the patient by sending electrical responses/stimuli aimed at specific muscle groups.