Tag: smart wearables

Researchers from the University of Florida received the Best Paper Runner-up Award at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT 2025) for their paper, “A Machine Learning Approach for Real-time Gait Analysis.” The multidisciplinary team includes Ankan Ghosh, Sumaiya Afroz Mila, Zongwei Zhen, Swarup Bhunia, Sandip Ray (Department of Electrical & […]

For the student demo session of the Warren B. Nelms Annual IoT Conference 2025, computer engineering student David Bickram set out to design a smart wearable to address gaps in existing assistive hearing technology. The idea was to build a device that could detect and classify environmental sounds and respond instantly, privately, and reliably. This […]

UF smart sensor sends smartphone alert if mending patient is too daring on their feet GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A physician isn’t going to follow a patient home to ensure they’re doing as instructed and not placing weight on a surgically repaired foot. “Sometimes someone swears they didn’t put weight on their foot, but then they […]

When COVID-19 upended our lives in early 2020, some of the brightest engineering minds across the globe got to work. Members of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World came forward to join this global task force to fight the pandemic. Using our research expertise and creativity, we implemented smart connected systems to monitor, […]