Disease management by examining the movement and body temperature changes of elderly people living alone in remote areas… ‘Digital care industry innovation’
A disease management system is being developed that can analyze various medical data, such as the movements, body temperature, and health status of elderly people living alone, without physically contacting them, and respond when necessary.
Gyeongsangbuk-do Province announced on the 2nd that Yeungnam University’s ‘Multimodal Untact Sensing Research Center for Lifelog’ was finally selected in the ‘2023 Regional Innovation Leading Research Center Project’ (RLRC) competition hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
The Regional Innovation Leading Research Center Project is a project to establish and support leading research centers specialized in regional innovation to lead sustainable, self-generated innovation growth in regions based on basic research.
Yeongnam University, Gyeongbuk Province, Gyeongsan City, etc. supported the intelligent digital convergence sector of the regional innovation growth sector of this project by local autonomous bodies and achieved results.
The Multimodal Untact Sensing Research Center for Lifelog at Yeungnam University will receive a total of KRW 14 billion in support, including KRW 10.1 billion in national funds, funds from Gyeongbuk Province and Gyeongsan City, and private investment, for up to seven years until February 2030. The center is scheduled to be established within the Yeungnam University Graduate School.
Lifelog multimodal untact sensing is a technology that detects various forms of biometric information such as heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, body temperature, and oxygen saturation in daily life without physical contact.
The Yeungnam University Research Center, together with Yeungnam University Hospital, DGIST, and Azone Tech Co., Ltd., a non-contact medical IT company in Gumi, is developing a disease management system that transmits and analyzes various medical data, such as the movements and temperature changes of patients, including elderly people living alone, to medical institutions.
By utilizing this, it is expected that hospitals and other organizations will be able to monitor and analyze the health information of patients living in medically underserved areas, and if abnormal symptoms are observed in such patients, medical institutions and fire departments will be able to dispatch patients and provide treatment.
They will play a role in specialized fields such as technology development, training of biomedical engineers, medical data analysis and clinical application, and sensor platform commercialization. Gyeongbuk Province expects that through this, they will be able to train excellent local talent and spread the research results to the region.
Gyeongbuk Province achieved the result of being selected as the third leading research center, following Yeungnam University’s ‘Autonomous Vehicle Parts and Materials Blue Research Center’ in 2019 and Gyeongbuk National University’s Sangju Campus’ ‘Carbon Neutral Intelligent Energy System Leading Research Center’ in 2021.
Gyeongbuk Province Metaverse Science Bureau Director Choi Hyuk-jun said, “This project is a case of cooperation where local universities, medical and research institutions, and ICT companies work together to solve the region’s unique hyper-aging and vulnerable medical environment problems. We will continue to support industry-academia-research cooperation to discover and foster future growth industries in the region.”
Source: https://www.khan.co.kr/local/Gyeongbuk/article/202310221013001
