RIOT Summit 2025, Keynote: "Wearables for Space"

Ulf Kulau (TU Hamburg and DSI Aerospace Technologie GmbH) Slides: https://summit.riot-os.org/2025/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/09/keynote.pdf --- Missions to the Moon and Mars are increasingly becoming the focus of interest in human spaceflight. The environmental conditions in space have a strong influence on the physiology of astronauts, making continuous health monitoring essential. Wearables for everyday astronaut life on the Moon and Mars have not been a major focus of research to date, as radiation effects are significantly lower on the ISS, for example, but in the future it will not be possible to rely exclusively on commercial solutions. With our ongoing research we want to contribute to close this gap. In addition to the general motivation, the keynote also addresses the challenges for miniaturized and efficient sensor systems in the field of space applications. Research results are presented using the example of ‘SpacePatch’, with RIOT also playing a role as the operati