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

护理院目前没有资源持续监测其居民的生命体征。研究表明，这样的监测可以大大提高护理和关键反应，以及更有效地分配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%，住院减少71%，急诊减少33%相关）。然而，对于护理人员来说，定期监测生命体征是一项“耗时、新且具有潜在挑战性的任务”（Barker等人）。2020，in _Age and Ageing_ 49，142），通常是不可持续的，连续监测根本是不可能的。现有的护理监测技术格局是支离破碎的，各个指标需要单独的设备-这意味着任何一致或整体实践的尝试都意味着在一个已经陷入困境的行业中迅速扩大成本。护理之家业主和管理员“所有\[...\]我似乎同意，理想的解决方案是一个单一的平台，所有利益相关者，传感器和个人设备都可以馈送和访问数据，并在一个单一的环境中记录和管理一切。（技术和创新的护理院-SEHTA审查）.德科特未来工业寻求提供这样一个单一的平台，使24/7远程护理和监测的生命体征的老年人和弱势群体，通过智能服装来增加移动性增强功能。该公司最初是在国防背景下设计的，为了应对COVID 19，该公司的目标是迅速为护理部门生产其可穿戴物联网平台的基本版本，以帮助对抗病毒的影响。该产品是一种低成本，可洗涤的智能衬衫，由居民穿着，通过正在申请专利的非侵入式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。这包括预警系统和遇险探测。与此同时，嵌入式硬件通过允许穿戴者通过语音、手势和触摸来控制周围的设备，增强了穿戴者的移动性和生活质量，所有这些都通过他们的衣服-比触摸屏幕/遥控器更直观和简单：一个建立在人体上的用户界面。缺乏持续的监测，加上病情可能迅速恶化，这意味着护理部门受到COVID 19病毒的严重打击。关键的快速反应往往来得太迟。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来改变这种说法。

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.