Digital intelligent assistant for nursing applications

By 2018, the global cost of dementia rises above €900 billion - 80% of which are related to formal and informal care costs. Care for people suffering from cognitive impairments is demanding and requires a high level of personnel attendance by nurses as well as the need for additional human resources. DIANA – the Digital Intelligent Assistant for Nursing Applications supports caregivers while improving the life and safety of the elderly and impaired by providing novel solutions for action and behavior recognition using AI powered 3D sensors. It will provide assistance in numerous complex tasks such as monitoring safety of patients 24/7, controlling walks at night, responding to alarms from existing sensors, supporting activities of daily living, monitoring health trends of patients, and visualizing this data. In addition, this project addresses specifically the toilet, where hardly any supporting technologies exist. The visit of a toilet is part of the daily outine, and takes a high amount of the nursing time. DIANA has the unique goal of increasing people's autonomy and digitise the help of nurses. This will have immediate positive consequences on the job performance as well as raise the efficiency of an estimated 30%. The DIANA project builds on years of research by the academic partners and long-term business collaboration of the exploitation partners. The project has a fast market introduction as its core goal. It will overcome a number of typical obstacles when exploiting R+D projects by reducing the complexity of the solution. It will use the open management platform by Milestone Systems A/S as middleware, accessing Milestone's global ecosystem with more than 10.000 business partners. This will give the consortium the opportunity to tap into the distribution network and integration expertise of EET and cogvis but also utilize the vast Milestone ecosystem with regular marketing events and conferences.