When the elderly live alone at home
Who will guard their safety?
In the digital age
Smart technology may be one of the answers
Recently, the details of the "home smart pension scene" model room created by Linfen Road Street in Jing'an District were unveiled, and functions such as whole house intelligence, flood warning, and real-time health monitoring were collected in the house to escort the safety of the elderly.
Do these smart pension products really work?
Can the elderly use it?
The reporter experienced it on the spot
The house is equipped with various alarm equipment
There are also intelligent robots that can be remotely controlled
Walking into the community of Lane 391 of Yangqu Road, an ordinary residential building "hides" smart pension products that are closely related to the life scenes of the elderly.
In order to avoid the elderly forgetting the key can not enter the door, the door of the house uses fingerprints to unlock, when the door opens, the "door magnetic alarm" above the door edge records the time and number of times to open and close the door in real time. Once the elderly forget to close the door for some reason, after 5 minutes, the device will push the alarm information to the back-end platform, and inform the emergency contact person set in advance to remind the abnormal situation.
There are seven similar alarm devices in the house, which are designed according to different scenes. The kitchen is equipped with a "gas alarm" and a "smoke alarm", and once a gas leak or fire smoke hazard is detected, the system will also report the situation to the background and notify the emergency contact.
The bathroom is equipped with a "flood alarm", this seemingly inconspicuous placement, is installed at the base of the wall next to the washstand, a probe extends to the ground, when the probe perceives that the bathroom floor has accumulated water and lasts for a certain period of time, it will notify the situation to the background and emergency contact to deal with unexpected events such as sewage blockage, forgetting to turn off the faucet.
From the shower to the edge, there is also a "pull cord alarm" on the wall, and a long red rope hangs to the ground. Considering that the elderly are inconvenient to carry mobile phones or smart devices when taking a bath, once an accident such as a fall occurs, just pull the rope, and the background can automatically alarm.
In addition to fixed scenes, the safety of the elderly in the movement is also taken into account. The model room is equipped with a "wireless SOS one-key alarm" that can be carried around, once an emergency is encountered, the elderly can press the red button, the background can be connected to the phone, in addition to helping to call a taxi, make a reservation, policy consultation, etc.
For many elderly people, the most feared thing is wrestling. Taking into account this situation, there is a camera-like device installed on the ceiling of the living room, through intelligent technologies such as millimeter-wave biological monitors, real-time access to the activities of the elderly in the whole house, once the elderly fall to the ground in the house, can be monitored and alarmed in the background to notify the emergency contact.
The room is also equipped with a whole house intelligent control system. The panel installed in the living room and bedroom room is set up with the door light, the switch of the guide light, and the "home mode" and "away from home mode", which can turn on or off the lights in the house at one time. The ground from the bedroom to the bathroom is also equipped with ground guidance lights to facilitate the elderly to walk in the house at night, and the walls are also equipped with ageing products such as handrails to escort the elderly.
What makes the reporter feel novel is a "pension digital partner" intelligent robot in the room, which can be used to measure blood pressure, blood oxygen and other human health indicators, and the relevant data will also be uploaded to the background for children to view at any time. In addition, children can also remotely control intelligent robots to walk in the house, communicate with the elderly through the camera "face-to-face", and check the situation in the house when the elderly's phone cannot be connected.
Many elderly people said that the threshold is too high
Product features still need to be improved
For the home care, the smart old-age care scene focuses on safety protection, care services, health services, emotional care, etc., including the elderly fall prevention, emergency rescue for the elderly, bed rest care for the elderly, remote support for home care beds, and intelligent voice communication and interaction for the elderly.
Although there are many types of smart pension products from the quantitative point of view, many products also have problems such as inaccurate functions, lack of fluency, and unsuitability. In the actual experience, the reporter has encountered problems such as functional failure due to poor Wi-Fi networks, complex button operation and slow response. A number of elderly people interviewed by reporters said that the reason why they were reluctant to use it was that the threshold was too high.
Xu Bing, chairman of Shanghai Jinfu Nursing Home, has investigated a number of smart pension products on the market, such as a fall alarm, which can be used to identify the shape and action of the old man within three minutes after falling, but he found after trial that the old man must fall at a certain angle to the device to alarm. "In real life, this is often not the case, so it loses the meaning of calling the police."
Due to insufficient accuracy, some devices will also have frequent false positives. Some smoke alarms, as long as a little encounter with smoke and dust will alarm, sometimes to report many times a day. "It's like too many wolves come, and the next time the real wolf comes, people won't believe you." Xu Bing said.
Previously, the Civil Affairs Bureau had combed the functions of smart pension products on the market and found that there were many shortcomings. For example, the battery life of many portable and wearable devices is generally insufficient, the number of charging times during use is frequent, the charging time is longer, and the interface of some battery charging devices is difficult to use, resulting in long-term inconvenience for the elderly, often forgetting to wear or unwilling to wear.
In terms of accuracy, in order to find unexpected events such as falls of the elderly in real time, the existing video analysis technology and detection technology are not very mature, and the recognition rate of speech recognition for Mandarin is high, but the recognition accuracy of many smart pension products for the elderly in Shanghainese is not enough.
In addition, some wearable devices will cause discomfort for long-term wear, and they are not designed for the psychological and physical characteristics of the elderly, which often leads to the elderly feeling troublesome and unwilling to wear, and even generating resistance. Some products do not fully take into account the physiological characteristics and learning ability of the elderly, such as the screen is too small for the elderly to see.
"Smart pension products should be like clinical drug research and development, they must be used to know the advantages and disadvantages of the product, and enterprises must also consider the problem from the perspective of the elderly." In Xu Bing's view, product research and development enterprises can cooperate with conditional pension institutions as a practice base or pilot unit for products, and regularly feedback and suggestions to better improve products.
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