Nokia helps innovate solutions for care of elderly
Nokia on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with St Luke’s Eldercare (SLEC) to co-develop and conceptualise innovative solutions for the elderly.
As part of the MoU, Nokia and SLEC are trialling Asia’s first fall prediction video analytics application.
The solution leverages Nokia Bell Labs’ proprietary video analytics technology to create an unobtrusive and continuous monitoring system to determine the likelihood of an elderly person falling.
The personalised and predictive solution will analyze information about walking speed, gait width and step width, and predict and send an alert when there is an increased risk of the person falling. This application will be integrated into Nokia’s Impact IoT (Internet of things) platform in its next phase, to allow the caregiver to view and collect information from the solution and other sensors that the elderly person is using.
A joint study on eldercare IoT innovation, developed by Nokia and the Eden Strategy Institute, revealed that one-in-three elderly Singaporeans is likely to experience a fall once a year, with resulting injuries contributing at least 1 billion Singapore dollars (Bt24.3 billion) to total healthcare costs.
