Large-scale printed sensors for Security, Healthcare and Smart Home control

在拥挤、危险或与世隔绝的空间，建筑环境中的使用者的安全很难保证。Bare Conductive(BC)致力于开发一种能够监测和识别人类行为的传感产品，以预测和预防对人类生命的危险，特别关注可能对独立生活的脆弱或老年人构成重大风险的私人空间。在生活在英国的1000万65岁以上的人中，三分之一的人每年都会出现下降，他们的卧床天数超过400万天，每年的医疗费用高达20亿英镑。通过对用户行为的长期被动监测，该项目有可能先发制人，提醒照顾者危险行为，而不会侵犯用户的个人隐私。BC将利用其现有的大规模印刷电容式接近传感器技术，为老年人和照顾者创造一种跌倒检测产品，该产品可以改造成建筑环境，随着时间的推移谨慎地监测个人的存在、位置和移动，以预防和检测跌倒事件。该产品将结合印刷在纸或塑料上的大而薄的传感器垫与高分辨率传感器硬件相结合，创造出具有谨慎安装潜力的薄型、低成本、高分辨率产品。该项目的主要经济影响将是由于家庭或其他护理情况下跌倒发生率的减少、BC收入的增长以及英国分包商的收入增长而节省的成本。

The safety of users in the built environment is difficult to ensure in crowded, hazardous or isolated spaces. Bare Conductive (BC) seeks to develop a sensing product that can monitor and recognise human behaviour for the prediction and prevention of danger to human life, focusing specifically on private spaces that can present significant risk to vulnerable or elderly people living independently. Of the 10 million over 65s living in the UK, one third suffer a fall annually, accounting for over 4 million bed days and at a healthcare cost of £2 billion a year. Through long term passive monitoring of user behaviour, this project has the potential to pre-empt and alert carers to endangering behaviour, without encroaching on personal privacy of users. BC will use its existing large scale printed capacitive proximity sensor technologies to create a fall detecting product for elderly individuals and carers, which can be retrofitted to the built environment to discreetly monitor individual presence, location and movement over time to pre-empt and detect a fall event. The product will combine large, thin printed sensor pads printed on paper or plastic combined with high resolution sensor hardware, creating a thin, low cost, high resolution product with the potential for discreet installation. The primary economic impacts of the project will be a cost savings due to the reduction of incidence of falls in the home or other care situations, BC revenue growth and revenue growth of UK based subcontractors.