The large increase in elderly population (more than doubled in last three decades) and prevalence of chronic diseases leads to shortage in caregivers, thus leading to higher pressure on hospital services, nursing/care homes and increased care costs. This creates a large unmet demand for cost and resource efficient health monitoring of elderly people. The current solutions for monitoring the health status of solitary elderly at homes/care homes are represented by sensor-based monitoring systems, such as cameras and wearable devices. These technologies present some limitations such as being intrusive, need of physical interaction, multiple devices, are expensive and not sufficiently accurate. This necessitates cost effective and non-intrusive health monitoring alternatives that will allow our ageing parent, spouse, friend or loved one to live at home or in a care home with greater independence, better security, dignity and a far greater sense of reassurance.
Raytelligence offers RayVS1, an IoT and radar based, hands free non-invasive monitoring system for vital signs and movements of individuals and to provide real-time alerts to caregivers about their condition. It can detect position, movement (fall detection), and heart and respiration rate of individuals without the need to physically interact with the user.
The overall objectives of the project include, defining a minimum viable product, establish a feasible product development plan and industrialisation strategy, plan demonstration and validation trials and analyse risks and opportunities.