MM-Wave at Home: Contextual Monitoring of Activities and Well-being

该项目旨在引入一项新技术，允许近亲或照顾者远程监控亲人的健康状况，而不需要不方便的可穿戴设备或侵入性摄像头。现有系统可以监控跌倒，或跟踪一天中的活动，但这些需要吊坠、奖章、智能手表或智能手机。这些设备需要充电，否则可能会丢失或被遗忘。为了真正可靠，该系统必须是无可穿戴的。Nodens Medical将开发一种可自由穿戴、安全且不需要摄像头或视频的传感器。它将使用功率低于Wi-Fi路由器或手机的无害无线电波，创建一张家庭活动地图。虽然这张地图人类无法识别(因此将保护个人隐私)，但车载人工智能引擎将接受培训，以理解地图显示的情况。这将允许它向居民询问他们是否还好，打电话求助，或者通过应用程序通知亲戚或照顾者。无穿戴式家庭护理监控已经成熟，可以颠覆智能家居市场。通过延长Impact奖，诺登斯医疗公司将与NHS信托基金合作，探索在当地社区提供我们的家庭监控系统。NHS信托认识到，全球大流行使他们所服务的人很难接触到他们，因此正在寻找更有效的方法来确保他们的安全和保护他们的福祉。这一扩展将支持一项试点，使社区成员能够受益于这一最先进的免穿戴监控解决方案。

This project is aimed at introducing a new technology to allow close relatives or carers to remotely monitor the wellbeing of their loved-ones, without the need for inconvenient wearables or intrusive cameras.Existing systems can monitor for falls, or track activities over the course of a day, but these require pendants, medallions, smart watches, or smart phones. These devices require charging, or may get lost or forgotten. To truly be reliable the system must be wearable-free.NodeNs Medical will develop a sensor that is wearable free, safe, and does not require cameras or video. It will use harmless radio waves at powers lower than a Wi-Fi router or mobile phone, to create a map of activities in the home. While this map is not recognisable to humans (and thus will preserve one's privacy), an on-board artificial intelligence engine will be trained to understand what the map shows is happening. This will allow it to ask the resident if they are okay, call for help, or notify a relative or carer through an app. Wearable-free home care monitoring is ripe to disrupt the smart home market.Through an Extension for Impact award, NodeNs Medical will work with an NHS Trust to explore provision of our home monitoring system in a local community. The NHS Trust recognises that the global pandemic makes it difficult to reach the people they serve, and are therefore searching for more effective means of ensuring their safety and protecting their wellbeing. This Extension will support a pilot which will allow members of the community to benefit from this state-of-the-art wearable-free monitoring solution.