Infosys to help Dutch community on health project

Indian IT bellwether Infosys Ltd will partner with Commit, a public-private research community in the Netherlands, for a sensor-based engagement for an improved health project, the company said Monday.

"We will provide technology and investment to Commit's health project being set up with a consortium of partners to promote a healthier society globally through smart phone application for end users," the global software major said in a statement here.

Drawing on its domain expertise in sensor networks, complex event processing, security and velocity data management, Infosys will enhance the project for effective use of the smart phone application.

"Our application delivers personalised coaching guidelines on a user's smart phone on vital statistics, exercise regime, long and short-term medical history, location, diet habits, and weather conditions," Infosys Labs vice president Subu Goparaju said.

Both the partners will also collaborate to enable the smart phone application to access data sources like mood recognition, speech analysis and social content from a user's Facebook and Twitter accounts.

"We will work with specialist sports schools and experts from diverse fields such as human movement and media interaction professors, fitness coaches and sports and nutrition professors in developing the solution," Goparaju said.

Commit uses fundamental ICT (information and communication technology) research programme on a PPP model combining academic research and non-profit organisations.

"Infosys is the ideal partner to create healthier societies the world over as its expertise in understanding users' diverse cultures can be combined with our scientific skills to create new types of solutions for practical use," said Commit chairman Arnold Smeulders.

Funded by the Netherlands government for up to euro 50 million ($68 million) and with a total revenue of euro 110 million ($149 million), Commit focuses on solving challenges in information and communication science for society.