"We are now developing a smart patch, put one on the stool inside the home, put one on the toilet seat, put one on the mouth of the refrigerator, so that the number of times you open the refrigerator, the time you sit, the time you stay in bed, we are able to get it all." Chen Yiqiang, director of the Pervasive Center at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said.
Such smart patches are tailored for the elderly and have the advantage of enabling non-interference perception. "Some wearable devices now, such as watches and bracelets, make it uncomfortable for older people to wear to bed and can interfere with their lives. We want to go from heavy wear to light wear, and from light wear to no wear." Chen Yiqiang said.
"We have done some experiments, such as putting the patch on top of your shoes to recognize your gait; put it on top of the water pipe, and through the vibration of the water pipe, we are able to know whether you are going to the toilet or taking a bath, or washing dishes. Once the elderly appear not in line with the daily life pattern of behavior, it will be able to immediately perceive, including the most concerned about the fall detection mode, how to be able to timely alarm. Now we have a radar non-interference sleep detection technology that can detect the heartbeat during sleep." He said.
These "black science and technology" will be slowly applied to the smart old age. The General Office of the State Council has recently issued a number of opinions on comprehensively liberalizing the market for senior care services to improve the quality of senior care services, which proposes to "develop new forms of intelligent senior care services, develop and use intelligent hardware, and promote the combination of mobile Internet, cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, etc. with the senior care service industry," as well as to "Support the design and development of intelligent products, wearable devices for health monitoring, and mobile application software (APP) for healthy aging, which are suitable for the elderly," and so on.
The 21st Century Business Herald has learned that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA), and the Health and Family Planning Commission (HFPC) are organizing to formulate a "plan of action for the development of the intelligent health care industry," which may be issued soon.
Interconnectivity and mutual understanding and interaction
In 2015, the State Council issued the "on actively promoting the "Internet +" action of the guiding opinions", which involves the health of the elderly in two places: first, the promotion of new models of online medical and health care; second, the development of intelligent health care industry.
"The second of these points is the first time the concept of intelligent healthy aging is proposed, and this aspect relies more on the input and support of social forces." December 24, in the "innovation for the old technology to help industrial upgrading" summit forum, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Electronic Information Division of the audio-visual products Division Director Wang Zhong said. The forum was jointly organized by the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Huijiajia Technology Development Co.
Chen Yiqiang believes that Internet+medicine should include four parts: "Interconnection, that is, through non-contact sensors to perceive the various behaviors of the elderly; interoperability, that is, to achieve seamless connectivity; mutual understanding, that is, people need to understand the data; interaction, that is, through the calculation of the data, to tell the elderly what to do in this case, such as temperature is 38 degrees, whether to go to the hospital or not to go to the hospital. degrees, should they go to the hospital or not, and what should they do if they are at home?"
Such smart devices are being tested in the medical field, such as the perception of cerebrovascular disease. Nowadays, the examination of cerebrovascular disease mainly uses MRI/CT to seek medical treatment, Chen Yiqiang's laboratory designed 17 kinds of behavioral tests, including dexterity test of hand gestures, walking balance test, gait test and so on. The tests are mainly conducted by testing five movements of the elderly, which greatly reduces the cost of going to the hospital for examination.
"There are about 10,000 lost elderly people in Japan every year, but Japan is now better at solving the problem of finding lost elderly people. Elderly people are given a kind of shoes with GPS and a bar code is painted on their fingernail caps. Once an elderly person is lost, by scanning the barcode on his fingernails, the police, social workers or social welfare departments can solve the problem. Now that our country is probably losing more than 600,000 elderly people every year, this not-so-complex technology is actually particularly useful." Yao Xianhui, former inspector of the Department of Social Welfare and Charity Promotion at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said.
South Korea's Hyundai has developed an "exoskeleton," a walking aid for the elderly. "The cost of this exoskeleton is not much higher than the cost of an electric car, the battery is also miniaturized, with a walker, paralyzed elderly can walk on their own - for these people, lying down and standing up are two completely different things. It turns out that our country also made some walkers, but power and other problems can not be solved, things are very bulky." Yao Xianhui said.
Platform business of smart aging
"Smart healthy aging is going to include intelligent hardware, Internet of Things, informatization platforms and big data analysis and other parts." Wang Zhong said.
"The ultimate goal is to cultivate new business forms of smart healthy aging services, such as chronic disease management, home health care, personalized health management, such as Internet health consulting, intelligent life care, informatization in the nursing institution and so on, are some of the new business forms of services." He said.
Some of the applications are now on the ground. A county in Shandong Province has equipped key populations in the county with intelligent health care home terminals, and the hypertension detection rate in the jurisdiction has increased by 5 percentage points, the intervention rate has increased by 10 times, and the risk rate has been reduced by 50 percent, because of the gateway to the front, which saves 8 million dollars a year in health insurance costs.
Developing a smart health care industry requires the input of social forces. A private company in Fujian province has built an O2O platform to set up elderly service activity centers in communities, providing standardized, all-discipline life care services for the elderly through telephone, Internet and other information-based means. The Beijing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau purchased 10,000 sets of bracelets for the elderly, which can locate, alarm, monitor health and make calls, and rationed them to some key groups.
How can social capital enter the smart health care industry? Lelian Investment Chairman Xu Wenyuan believes that "the elderly need more is a more complete set of service chain and service system, so social capital into the production enterprises directly into the cost of research is more difficult to realize, the risk of capital is relatively high. So I think there should be the emergence of an industrial platform to help solve."
"In the home care industry platform, it is not through the transformation of scientific research results to create a demand, because the platform for the elderly to provide services in the chain of need for a certain technology products, this time and then go to accurately transform this scientific and technological achievements, directly into the service chain, direct service to the user needs." Xu Wenyuan said.
National Bureau of Statistics data show that by the end of 2015, China's population aged 60 years and older reached 220 million, accounting for 16.1 percent of the total population. According to the forecast, by 2050, China's elderly population aged 65 and above will reach 483 million, accounting for 34.1 percent of the total population. Guotai Junan analysis pointed out that China's pension industry in 2020 will usher in 5 trillion yuan of market space.
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