Q-Belt Integrated Computer (QBIC)

Contact

Oliver Amft

Project Start: March 2003

For users and developers: please refer to the QBIC site at  www.qbic.ethz.ch.

Objectives

The Q-Belt Integrated Computer (QBIC) is fully-fledged computer integrated into a common accessory - a belt. QBIC has enough computational power to support a wide range of applications. The system is developed and batch produced at ETH Zurich as research platform to collect and process data for context recognition projects. Various applications are supported such as recognising activities of daily living, tracking location or monitoring of user actions in work process flows, to name a few. More...

Projects and groups using the QBIC

• MyHeart - Fighting cardio-vascular diseases by prevention and intervention.
• WearIT@Work - Skoda car production
• WearIT@Work - Gespag hospital information management
• Wearlab, TZI, University Bremen, Germany
• Embedded Systems Lab, University Passau, Germany
  

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Publications, press coverage

• Design of the QBIC wearable computing platform.
  O.Amft, M.Lauffer, S.Ossevoort, F.Macaluso, P.Lukowicz, G.Tröster ASAP 2004: Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, Galveston, Texas, September 27-29, 2004.
  
• Technik + Trends: High Density Packaging, Elektronik-Magazin 12/2004.
  
• Electronics: High Density Packaging, Polyscope 7/2004.
• Wearable Computing: Intelligente Kleidung für Katrastrophenschutz und Wartungstechniker, VDI nachrichten 8.10.2004.

Links

• QBIC - The insight story
  
• User's and developer web site: www.qbic.ethz.ch.
• High-performance DSP co-processor: ColdCruncher project.