ICT&health June 14, 2024

A Scottish consortium of partners has developed a new device that can detect when elderly or vulnerable people living alone need urgent medical attention. The device uses artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to analyse electricity usage in the home to check whether household appliances and other electrical equipment are being used.

The device, developed by CENSIS (the Scottish Innovation Centre for Sensor, Imaging and IoT Technologies) and several others, connects wirelessly to a smart or traditional electricity meter and measures power usage every 10 seconds. By analysing the data, it is possible to see when specific electrical appliances in the home, such as a kettle, microwave or washing machine, are being used normally. Machine learning can...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Home, IoT (Internet of Things), Patient / Consumer, Technology
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