TTC #297 Intelligent Sensing for Dementia Patients

Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 11:09 p.m.

b'Thanos Stavropoulos, CEO & Co-Founder at Carealia, a spinoff of Dem@Care, a FP7 European funded project. Thanos explains how they worked together with IBM, Philips and several European clinics to build a smart home monitoring system to assist in the care of dementia. Interconnected devices such as retail wearables, ambient sensors and security solutions installed in a smart home, are combined with intelligent algorithms and clinical knowledge to produce insights and support doctors to assess efficiently and remotely patients\\u2019 symptoms and behavioural patterns. They are actively looking for early adopters and customers to deploy their smart monitoring system thus they are focusing on nursing homes. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central during the eHealth Forum Festival in Technopolis, October 2016.'