What are the “black technologies” in smart elderly care?

The 'Xiao Neng Ban' tablet for the elderly focuses on solving the elderly's smart elderly care needs of family companionship, physical health, entertainment and leisure, and is committed to providing every middle-aged and elderly person with a happy old age. In addition to Xiao Neng Ban, , the hardware technology of smart elderly care black also includes the following.

“We are currently developing a smart patch. Put one on the stool at home, one on the toilet seat, and one on the door of the refrigerator. In this way, the number of times you open the refrigerator and the time you sit, We can get all the time we spend in bed," said Chen Yiqiang, director of the Pervasive Center of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Such a smart patch is specially designed for the elderly, and its advantage is that it can achieve non-interfering perception. "Some of today's wearable devices, such as watches and bracelets, make it uncomfortable for the elderly to sleep while wearing them, and will interfere with their lives. We must focus on wearing them lightly and wear them lightly, and wear them lightly and wear nothing at all," said Chen Yiqiang.

“We have done some experiments, such as putting patches on shoes to identify your gait; placing patches on water pipes, and through the vibration of the water pipes, we can know whether you are going to the toilet or in the bathroom. Taking a shower or washing vegetables. Once the elderly behave in a way that is not consistent with their daily life patterns, they can immediately detect it, including the fall detection mode that everyone is most concerned about, and how to call the police in time. Now we have a radar non-interference sleep detection technology that can Detect heartbeats during sleep," he said.

These "black technologies" will gradually be applied to smart elderly care. The General Office of the State Council recently issued "Several Opinions on Comprehensively Liberalizing the Elderly Care Service Market to Improve the Quality of Elderly Care Services," which proposes to "develop new forms of smart elderly care services, develop and use intelligent hardware, and promote mobile Internet, cloud computing, Internet of Things, and big data." etc. and integrate with the elderly care service industry", and "support the design and development of intelligent products suitable for the elderly, health monitoring wearable devices, healthy elderly care mobile application software (APP), etc."

21st Century Business Herald learned that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and other departments are organizing the formulation of the "Smart Healthy and Elderly Care Industry Development Action Plan", which may be issued soon.

Interconnection, mutual understanding and interaction

In 2015, the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Actively Promoting the "Internet +" Action", two of which involve healthy elderly care: First, promotion A new model of online medical and health care; second, develop the smart health and elderly care industry.

“The second point is that the concept of smart healthy elderly care is proposed for the first time. This aspect relies more on the investment and support of social forces.” On December 24, at the peak of “Innovation helps old technology to promote industrial upgrading” At the forum, Wang Zhong, Director of the Audiovisual Products Division of the Electronic Information Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said. The forum was jointly sponsored by the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Huijijia Technology Development Co., Ltd.

Chen Yiqiang believes that Internet + medical care should include four parts: "Internet means sensing various behaviors of the elderly through non-contact sensors; interoperability means achieving seamless connections; mutual understanding, People need to understand the data; interaction means telling the elderly what to do if they encounter this situation through calculation of the data. For example, if the body temperature is 38 degrees, should they go to the hospital or not, and what should they do at home? "< /p>

Such smart devices are being tested in the medical field, such as sensing cerebrovascular diseases. Nowadays, MRI/CT is mainly used to examine cerebrovascular diseases. Chen Yiqiang's laboratory has designed 17 behavioral tests, including gesture flexibility test, walking balance test, gait test, etc. Mainly by detecting 5 movements of the elderly, the cost of going to the hospital for examination is greatly reduced.

"There are about 10,000 lost elderly people in Japan every year, but Japan has now solved the problem of finding lost elderly people better. The elderly are given shoes with GPS and painted on their fingernails. A barcode. Once an elderly person is lost, the police, social workers or social welfare department can solve the problem by scanning the barcode on their fingernails. There are currently more than 600,000 elderly people missing in our country every year. This uncomplicated technology is actually very useful. " said Yao Xianhui, former inspector of the Department of Social Welfare and Charity Promotion of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

South Korea's Hyundai Company has developed an "exoskeleton", which is a walking aid for the elderly.

"The cost of this exoskeleton is not much higher than that of an electric car, and the battery has been miniaturized. With the walker, paralyzed elderly people can walk on their own - for these people, lying down and standing are completely different things. It turns out that Our country has also made some walking aids, but problems such as power cannot be solved and they are very bulky,” Yao Xianhui said.

Platform format of smart elderly care

“Smart healthy elderly care should include intelligent hardware, Internet of Things, information platform and big data analysis, etc.” Wang Zhong said.

“The ultimate goal is to cultivate new forms of smart health and elderly care services, such as chronic disease management, home health and elderly care, personalized health management, such as Internet health consultation, smart life care, informatization in elderly care institutions, etc. etc., are all new service formats,” he said.

Some applications have now been implemented. A county in Shandong Province has equipped key groups within the county with smart health care home terminals. The detection rate of hypertension in the jurisdiction has increased by 5 percentage points, the intervention rate has increased by 10 times, and the risk rate has been reduced by 50% because the barrier has been moved forward. , saving 8 million in medical insurance costs a year.

Developing the smart health and elderly care industry requires investment from social forces. A private company in Fujian Province has built an O2O platform and set up an elderly care service activity center in the community to provide standardized and full-category life care services to the elderly through information methods such as telephone and the Internet. The Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau purchased 10,000 sets of elderly bracelets, which can locate, alarm, health monitor, and make calls, and distributed them to some key groups.

How does social capital enter the smart health and elderly care industry? Xu Wenyuan, chairman of Lelian Investment, believes, “What the elderly need more is a relatively complete service chain and service system, so it is more difficult for social capital to be invested in production companies to directly convert scientific research costs, and the risk is relatively high for capital. I think there should be an industrial platform to help solve the problem. ”

“On the home care industry platform, it is not about creating a demand through the transformation of scientific research results, because the platform provides a service chain for the elderly. If there is a need for a certain technological product, then we can accurately transform this technological achievement and directly integrate it into the service chain to directly serve the needs of users," Xu Wenyuan said.

Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that by the end of 2015, China’s population aged 60 and above reached 220 million, accounting for 16.1% of the total population. According to predictions, by 2050, China's population over 65 years old will reach 483 million, accounting for 34.1% of the total population. Guotai Junan's analysis pointed out that China's elderly care industry will usher in a market space of 5 trillion yuan in 2020.

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