Remote Monitoring of Elderly, Vulnerable, and Enhancing their Mobility, through Adaptive Intelligent Clothing (Single Platform Wearable) for Care Homes, Assisted Living and Personal Health: R&D, Expanded Testing and Product-Market Engagement

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，对于护理工作者来说，定期监测生命体征是一项“耗时、新颖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）.德科未来工业寻求提供这样一个单一的平台，使一致和持续的远程护理和监测的生命体征的老年人和弱势群体，通过智能生物识别服装，进一步增加移动增强功能。最初是在国防背景下设计的，为了应对COVID 19，该公司重新定义并重新定位了其智能服装平台，以对抗护理院中的冠状病毒。该公司赢得了竞争激烈的Innovate UK“_应对全球破坏的商业主导创新_”竞赛，以快速生产和现场测试其用于护理行业的可穿戴物联网平台的基本版本，作为减轻病毒严重影响的可行性研究。该项目现在寻求从可行性研究转向实验性开发，以真实的方式满足市场需求。这将伴随着一项可持续性研究，因为潜在的身体自适应技术有可能颠覆服装行业，成为一种可持续的替代品。正在开发的产品是可洗涤的智能服装，通过正在申请专利的外骨骼，适应任何体型或尺寸（从而允许嵌入式传感器的准确性，并通过打击快速时尚进一步建立可持续的未来）。服装收集，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。嵌入式硬件通过语音、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;比触摸屏幕/遥控器更直观，触摸屏幕/遥控器是一种建立在人体上的UI。缺乏持续监测，加上症状迅速恶化，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，我们的目标是使我们在可行性研究中开发和现场测试的原型为市场做好准备，设计新的可大规模生产和可扩展的版本，旨在为英国各地的护理之家提供应对当前和未来医疗危机的重要工具。

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 consistent and continuous remote care and monitoring of vitals for the elderly and vulnerable, further adding mobility-enhancing capabilities, through intelligent biometric clothing. Designed originally in the context of Defence, in response to COVID19 the company redefined and reoriented its intelligent clothing platform to combat the coronavirus in Care Homes. The company won the highly competitive Innovate UK '_Business-led Innovation in Response to Global Disruption_' competition to rapidly produce and field-test a basic version of its wearable IoT platform for the Care sector, as a feasibility study to mitigate the dramatic effects of the virus.This project now seeks to move from feasibility study to experimental development, to address market demand in a real way. This will be accompanied by a sustainability study, as the underlying body-adaptive tech has the potential to disrupt clothing industry as a sustainable alternative.The product being developed is washable, intelligent clothing that, through a patent-pending exoskeleton, adapts to any body-shape or size (thus allowing accuracy for embedded sensors, and further building towards a sustainable future by combating Fast Fashion). The clothing gathers, sends and remotely analyses biometric data. This includes early warning systems and distress detection. Embedded hardware enhances wearers' mobility and quality-of-life by allowing them to control surrounding devices with voice, gesture and touch; more intuitive than touching a screen/remote, a UI built on the human body.The lack of continuous monitoring, combined with rapidly worsening symptoms, means that the Care sector was 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 make the prototype we developed and field-tested in our feasibility study market-ready, designing new mass-producible and scalable versions, aiming to supply Care Homes across the UK with a vital tool for this and future healthcare crises.