Shoes heating system that allow the location via GPS or a scale that measures vital signs and sends data to the ‘tablet’ of medical technologies are presented today in New York to support the senior population.
Four years ago was born the “Ambient Assisted Living for all (AAL4ALL), an innovative project of the Health Cluster Portugal put 400 people in Portugal, the elderly and their caregivers, to test technologies and services designed purposely to support the senior population level health care and welfare.
“It is a mobilizing project (…) involving over 30 national institutions (…) from different areas, whether academic or industry or health or safety, involved an investment of around EUR 6.8 million, with public co-financing repayable around 4 million euros, “he told Lusa Miguel Sales, Microsoft Portugal.
For the vice president of the board of the Health Cluster Portugal and the cancer specialist, Manuel Sobrinho Simões, the AAL4ALL pilot project is the “first great success” of that institution.
“We are particularly happy because we were good to operationalize a concept, “said Manuel Sobrinho Simões during the public presentation of the project, which took place this afternoon at the Science and Technology Park, University of Porto (UPTEC).
A health monitoring platform that through a sensor weighing scale lets you know biometric data (glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure, body temperature) and home automation data (humidity, carbon dioxide and temperature of the house) is just one of dozens of Project technologies that will allow “to provide a new impetus to the prospect of living into old age with quality of life,” says a press release of the Health Cluster Portugal.
The project, which is being tested in 400 people around the Greater Porto, Aveiro, Covilha and Évora, also includes ‘Smart Shoe Locator’, which is a prototype shoe with integrated autonomous heating system which allows the person’s location and definition of the safety area through GPS (Global Position System).
A detector sensor drops a tablet-based gaming platform that seeks cognitively stimulating senior or an application for smartphone you want to signs of depression through behavioral variations analysis are also technologies Portuguese project that participants would like to see internationalized and implemented, for example, the National Health Service.
One of the objectives for the project “Ambient Assisted Living for all (AAL4ALL) is” make salable “and” exportable “the project, admitted Lusa Miguel Sales, Microsoft, and Vitor Ribeiro, PT Innovation.
The representative of PT Innovation, Vítor Ribeiro, increased even Lusa that PT Innovation is already working to implement the AAL4ALL in Angola.
In this project were involved about 200 engineers, scientists and researchers in creating technological solutions to the problem of active aging.
In 2011 census, 11 million inhabitants, Portugal recorded 19% of seniors. It is expected that in 2050 there in Portugal 30% of the elderly, but the Portuguese population drop to the seven million people can reach 50% of the population over 65 years.
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