Prof. Michele D'Amico's research group from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano is participating in the HOLDEN project – Ethical Design of Holography with Dense wireless Networks, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Framework Program for Research and Innovation.

The goal of the project is to develop innovative technological solutions for sensing objects, subjects and gestures that are privacy-preserving and ethically compliant. While RF-based sensing technologies enable personalized services such as smart living, automated logistics, or interaction through free-space gestures, they also pose a potential threat to privacy and raise ethical issues.

In this context, applying the principle of privacy by design, which aims to ensure the existence of a proper level of privacy and protection of personal data from the design stage, HOLDEN proposes a radically new approach to the problem, exploring the social aspects of RF-based sensing and developing technological solutions that comply with ethical and privacy constraints. More specifically, the project will develop a system of distributed multi-antenna devices for simultaneous multitarget recognition and ubiquitous perception with unprecedented accuracy.

In addition to the Politecnico di Milano, the project also involves Aalto University, the National Research Council, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Twente and Adant, a company specializing in the design and manufacturing of adaptive wireless systems.