3D Data

3D body data is a personal data that is being currently collected and used for different purposes within sectorial "silos" and integrated in vertical pipelines specifically designed for one service. Moreover, the collection of high quality data with the additional manual annotations is expensive process which limits the sizes of the individual datasets and limiting the applications. The same time the free exchange of biometric information between the different institutions is restricted to privacy/medical/financial reasons. Enabling the secure and controlled circulation of this data across sectors for offering new services will open new opportunities to substantially grow the creation of new business. However, the lack of agreed standards and formats of the 3D body models and derived statistical data, and the lack of secure environments where SMEs can test innovative services and product ideas using secure communications protocols to assure the control of the customer of the personal data is a barrier to wide spread new businesses.

It is necessary to break these barriers and to foster exchange, linking and re-use, as well as to integrate data assets from multiple sectors and across languages and formats and to create and stimulate a safe environment for experiments where not only data assets but also knowledge and technologies can be shared.

The aim of the project is to create an infrastructure for the exchange and utilization of digital personal biometric data. So that standardised, simplified and processed body metric information can be securely exchanged between entities that have/generate biometric data (research organisations, hospitals, companies, etc.) and entities that need those biometric data for human-oriented product design.