Don't blow the big model to talk about health care, Huawei enters! This trillion-level sensor track is even more prominent!
On May 15, Huawei held a summer all-scenario press conference, and released a number of new devices such as Huawei Matebook, Huawei Smart, and smart watches.
It is worth mentioning that at the new product launch conference, Huawei's whole-house intelligent "Future Home" was unveiled.
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According to Huawei's official introduction, the "Future Home" integrates space, art, and technology, and will unveil future hotels, future homestays, future schools, and future hospitals, with the goal of "reshaping the new form of human living space with intelligence".
At the same time, Huawei has launched a number of new smart accessories for the whole house, including AI-assisted health care sensors, a new generation of ultra-thin ceiling speakers, and a new generation of smart lighting fixtures.
Among them, the most introduced and fist product is the AI-assisted health care sensor, which aims at the home smart elderly care market, realizes health care with daily life detection scenarios, and supports hierarchical alarms, pushing abnormal information to family members, so that family members can be protected in time.
According to reports, the sensor uses millimeter-wave radar technology, multi-dimensional privacy protection, and is priced at 1399 yuan. Huawei has self-developed LiDAR and millimeter-wave radar technologies, which are mainly used for intelligent driving services and extended to smart home and other fields.
Whole-house smart home, Huawei does not blow up large models to talk about health care, with Huawei's entry, this trillion-level sensor track is more visible.
Why is Huawei aiming at this track? The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments have jointly introduced policy support, and the state has vigorously promoted it.
In recent years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments have issued a number of policies on the smart health care industry, and the mainland is accelerating the development of the smart health care industry, which is imminent from a national perspective!
According to the website of the National Health Commission, as of the end of 2021, there were 267.36 million elderly people aged 60 and above in China, accounting for 18.9% of the total population; There are 200.56 million elderly people aged 65 and above in China, accounting for 14.2% of the total population. The dependency ratio of the elderly population aged 65 and above is 20.8% in China.
In addition, relevant research data show that the baby boomer population from 1962 to 1976 will age in the next 5-10 years. It is expected to enter a super-aging society with more than 20% of the population around 2033, and then continue to rise rapidly to 35% in 2060.
▲Source: Health Commission website
The 2022 Government Work Report proposes: "actively respond to the aging of the population, optimize the supply of urban and rural pension services, and promote the high-quality development of aging undertakings and industries". Coping with population aging has become a national strategy and an important task of the 14th Five-Year Plan.
▲Source: Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan
In 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the National Health Commission issued the "Action Plan for the Development of Smart and Healthy Elderly Care Industry (2021-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), and in April 2022, the General Office of the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Health Plan, which regards smart and healthy elderly care as an important response to population aging, and is also an important policy landing point for "cultivating new formats such as smart elderly care" in the "14th Five-Year Plan".
In the "Plan" document, sensors and related hardware products and functions have become the key support and promotion direction of the smart health pension policy:
Development Vision
The ability to support science and technology has been significantly enhanced. The integration and development of the new generation of information technology and health care for the elderly has been deepened, the underlying technologies such as chips, sensors and operating systems have been further consolidated, and the integrated innovation and integrated application capabilities of a number of key technologies such as behavior monitoring, physiological detection, indoor and outdoor high-precision positioning, and health data analysis have been greatly enhanced, so as to fully meet the needs of smart health care for the elderly.
2. Strengthen information technology support and improve product supply capacity
(1) Promote the research and development of new technologies for smart health and elderly care. Develop intelligent, miniaturized and high-sensitivity biosensing technology suitable for health management, large-capacity, miniaturized battery technology and fast charging technology, high-performance, low-power microprocessor and lightweight operating system. Develop multi-modal behavior monitoring technology, fall prevention technology, and high-precision positioning technology suitable for elderly care. Support breakthroughs in core technologies such as rehabilitation intervention technology, neuromodulation technology, and motor function rehabilitation assessment and feedback. It is suitable for key technologies such as environmental perception, brain-computer interface, and self-learning of home service robots.
In addition, the "plan" focuses on the three major projects of smart health care product supply project, smart health innovation application project, and smart pension service promotion project, smoke sensor, door magnetic sensor, infrared sensor, camera, millimeter wave radar and other sensors and related application products are named, and sensors have become a huge and indispensable basic device in the smart health care industry.
With an output value of 8 trillion yuan, why is smart health care inseparable from sensors? Falls have become the leading cause of death among the elderly, and the world is promoting the application of sensors for health care
How big is the smart health care industry?
According to iiMedia Research, the market size of China's pension industry reached 8.8 trillion yuan in 2021, and it is expected that the market size will reach 10.3 trillion yuan in 2022.
Subdivided into the field of smart health and elderly care, according to China Electronics News, the overall scale of China's health and elderly care industry is expected to be 10 trillion yuan in 2022. Among them, the scale of the smart health pension industry will exceed 5 trillion yuan. It is estimated that by 2025, the scale of the smart health pension industry will exceed 8 trillion yuan.
At the same time, it can be seen from the above "plan" and other policies that sensors have been widely used in the entire field of smart health and elderly care, occupying an important share in this trillion market.
Why is smart health care inseparable from sensors?
A simple example is that falls, falls, and falls are not a problem for young people, but they are often fatal for the elderly, which is why Huawei's first AI smart health care sensor is mainly aimed at fall application scenarios.
Relevant statistics show that falls are the first cause of death due to injuries among the elderly over 65 years old in the mainland, and they are also the main cause of stroke and cerebral hemorrhage in the elderly. In addition, the fall is sudden, and it is difficult for the guardian to accompany the elderly at all times, and the elderly often cannot get timely assistance after falling.
The monitoring equipment that integrates a variety of sensors can monitor the physical posture of the elderly at all times, and timely alarm and rescue the elderly when they fall.
Related fall monitoring products have formed a rigid demand, and when searching for keywords such as "fall" on a number of different e-commerce platforms, the first products that appear are related to elderly monitoring.
In addition, judging from the common fall detection equipment products on the market, the market demand for sensors in the field of elderly care is diverse.
Millimeter-wave radar fall detection equipment is non-contact monitoring, which identifies the movement of objects within the range through millimeter wave + algorithm, and does not need to be worn when installed in the room, and will not affect the movement of the elderly. In addition, millimeter-wave radar can also be used for human presence monitoring, which is convenient for the elderly to go to the toilet and turn on the lights.
The wearable human posture (fall) alarm is a contact monitoring device that integrates a variety of sensors such as acceleration (inertia), pressure, and temperature, which can more accurately and instantaneously perceive the wearer's body posture information.
These devices generally have a built-in communication network, which can instantaneously send the wearer's fall information, blood pressure, pulse and other vital signs information to the relevant monitor or management department in real time through the 5G network, the Internet, and the Internet of Things, so as to quickly alarm the elderly when there is a problem and realize early rescue.
In addition, products such as anti-fall vests for the elderly also have a variety of sensing devices such as built-in inertial sensors to sense the wearer's body posture at all times, and open the inflatable rucksack in advance to reduce injuries in case of a fall.
Sensors can partially replace caregivers and monitor the physical safety status of the elderly at all times, which has become an indispensable reason for sensors in the smart health care industry.
At present, the global health care industry is promoting the application of sensors for elderly care.
In the report "The Future of Sensors and Older Adults" published in November 2022, Dr. Laurie M. Orlov of the United States mentioned that today's sensor technology innovation, labor shortages, and high cost of care have made the application of sensors in the elderly care industry not only possible, but also increasingly necessary.
The report believes that in the next five years, the application of sensors in elderly care will become more and more extensive, and factors such as increased life expectancy, the increase in single elderly families, and the shortage of caregivers have prompted the use of sensors to replace caregivers and provide more information about the body of the elderly.
Where are the sensors used in the smart health care industry? Which sensors will be widely used?
In addition to the above falls, sensors are needed in many situations in the lives of the elderly, such as forgetting to turn on the stove at home and causing a fire, or forgetting to turn off the faucet can cause flooding...... Wait a minute.
The application of sensors in smart health care is mainly concentrated in the fields of environment, safety, and health monitoring.
Environment. Today, we can install devices in our homes to detect changes in the environment, including air quality, monitoring and setting temperatures, detecting changes in humidity, or listening to sounds in the environment that could signal problems.
Safe. Sensors can be used to detect falls, leaving or entering a room, building, or a well-defined exclusion zone. And the lowest cost, such as action-activated night lights, can be a lifesaver in the bathroom. Other sensors can be used to detect significant changes in natural gas usage, tap water, or temperature. Most of the sensors are placed or installed somewhere in the room.
Healthy. Motion sensors can record toilet visits, aggregate physical health data, they can also use lidar to detect heartbeats, wheelchair users can avoid bedsores by using smart wheelchair cushions, track and predict changes in breathing or heart rate, or record changes in other health conditions.
At present, many smart health care products have used millimeter-wave radar, acceleration sensor, optical heart rate sensor, blood oxygen saturation sensor, infrared sensor, ambient light sensor, barometric pressure sensor, capacitive sensor, GPS sensor, etc. to achieve health management, exercise monitoring, anti-wandering and other functions.
But in general, safety, health, and environmental monitoring will be the main aspects of sensor applications in smart health care.
▲Sensor application in the living environment of the elderly, source: MDPI
epilogue
The real estate sector is facing a malaise as population growth has declined over the past 20 years, thanks to the huge demand for housing in China due to China's demographic dividend.
In the next 20 years, the aging of the Chinese population will continue to intensify, and elderly care services will become an important social issue, and many experts believe that elderly care will replace real estate as China's primary industry.
With the increasing number of elderly people, there will be a serious shortage of nursing staff and medical staff, therefore, smart health care has become part of the "14th Five-Year Plan" national plan, through the cultivation of smart health care industry, through sensors and other high-tech products, to alleviate the shortage of personnel and medical resources in the elderly care service.
At present, the smart health care industry is still in the policy-oriented market and cultivation and introduction stage, but the aging of the Chinese population is becoming increasingly prominent, and the market has begun to urgently need more smart health care products, and in the next 5 years, the times will promote the rapid development of the smart health care industry.
Now, with the entry of Huawei, this trillion-level sensor track is even more prominent.