Remote Monitoring of Elderly, Vulnerable, and Enhancing their Mobility, through Adaptive Intelligent Clothing (Single Platform Wearable) for Care Homes, Assisted Living and Personal Health

养老院目前没有资源来持续监测其居民的生命体征。研究表明，这种监测可以显著增强护理和危重反应，并更有效地分配NHS和护理资源(试验，即使只是基于间隔的监测，也与全科医生就诊减少35%，住院人数减少71%，急诊住院人数减少33%)相关。然而，对于护理工作者来说，定期监测生命体征是一项“耗时的、新的和潜在的具有挑战性的任务”(Barker_et al_。2020，In_Age and Ageing_49,142)，通常是不可持续的，连续监测是根本不可能的。现有的护理监测技术格局是支离破碎的，单个指标需要单独的设备-这意味着任何一致或整体做法的尝试都意味着在一个本已苦苦挣扎的行业中迅速扩大成本。养老院所有者和管理员“似乎都同意，理想的解决方案是一个单一平台，所有利益相关者、传感器和个人设备都可以在其中馈送和访问数据，并在单一环境中记录和管理一切”(养老院的技术和创新-SEHTA审查)。Decorte Future Industries寻求提供这样一个单一平台，实现全天候远程护理和监控老年人和弱势群体的生命体征，增加移动性增强功能，所有这些都通过智能服装实现。该公司最初是在防务的背景下设计的，为了应对COVID19，该公司的目标是为护理部门快速生产其可穿戴物联网平台的基础版本，以帮助抗击该病毒的影响。该产品是一种低成本、可洗涤的智能衬衫，供居民穿着，通过正在申请专利的非侵入性外骨骼适应任何体型或大小(从而允许嵌入式传感器的准确性)，收集、发送和远程分析生物特征数据。这包括早期预警系统和遇险检测。与此同时，嵌入式硬件通过允许佩戴者通过语音、手势和触摸来控制周围的设备，从而提高了他们的移动性和生活质量--比触摸屏幕/遥控器更直观和简单：建立在人体上的UI。缺乏持续监测，再加上病情可能迅速恶化，意味着护理部门正受到新冠病毒的极大打击。关键的快速反应往往来得太晚了。缺乏长期数据收集意味着无法进行预防性或预测性护理。通过这个项目，我们的目标是测试和快速部署新技术，以改变这种说法。

Care homes do not presently have the resources to continuously monitor their residents' vitals. Research shows that such monitoring can lead to dramatically enhanced care and critical response, and a much more effective allocation of NHS and care resources (trials, even just of interval-based monitoring, have been associated with a 35% reduction in GP visits, 71% in hospital admissions, and 33% in emergency admissions). Yet for care workers, regularly monitoring vitals is a "time-consuming, new and potentially challenging task" (Barker _et al_. 2020, in _Age and Ageing_ 49, 142), generally unsustainable, and continuous monitoring simply impossible.The existing technological landscape for monitoring in care is fractured, with individual metrics requiring individual devices - meaning any attempt at consistent or holistic practices implies rapidly scaling costs in an already struggling industry. Care home owners and administrators "all \[...\]seem to agree that the ideal solution is a single platform into which all stakeholders, sensors and individual devices can feed and access data, and which records and manages everything in a single environment" (Technology and Innovation in Care Homes - The SEHTA Review).Decorte Future Industries seeks to offer such a single platform, enabling 24/7 remote care and monitoring of vitals for the elderly and vulnerable, adding mobility-enhancing capabilities, all through intelligent clothing. Designed originally in the context of Defence, in response to COVID19 the company aims to rapidly produce a basic version of its wearable IoT platform for the care sector, to help combat the effect of the virus.The product is a low-cost, washable, intelligent shirt, worn by residents, that through a patent-pending non-intrusive exoskeleton adapts to any body-shape or size (thus allowing accuracy for embedded sensors), gathering, sending and remotely analysing biometric data. This includes early warning systems and distress detection. At the same time, the embedded hardware enhances the wearer's mobility and quality-of-life by allowing them to control surrounding devices with voice, gesture and touch, all through their clothing - more intuitive and simple than touching a screen/remote: a UI built on the human body.The lack of continuous monitoring, combined with a condition that can rapidly worsen, means that the care sector is being hit extremely hard by the COVID19 virus. Critical rapid response often simply comes too late. Lack of long-term data-gathering means inability to undertake preventative or predictive care. With this project, we aim to test and rapidly deploy new technologies to change that narrative.