Smart elderly care to be popularized in communities and villages

Currently, the leading international biochip technology has been piloted in the fields of smart elderly care and senile chronic disease prevention, Cheng Jing, a deputy to the National People’s Congress, academician of China Engineering Academy and director of CapitalBio Corporation, told the reporter during the “two sessions” in March, 2017.

“We are now exploring to build a “model room” for home-based smart elderly care, which will be popularized in urban communities and rural areas around the country,” said Cheng, “The smart room will provide elders with a more convenient, barrier-free and comfortable living space via integrating the technologies of wearable devices, artificial intelligence and cloud computing.”

It is learned that the room is installed with a bio-chip-based handheld detection device in the toilet to do basic body function testing for elders at home. The chip device collects elders’ finger blood, simultaneously and automatically uploads the test data to the cloud network, and then computes elders’ physical condition.

In addition, the room can provide more feasible programs to prevent and treat elders’ chronic diseases owing to its data collection and analysis functions. So Cheng proposed that the “model room” should be piloted and popularized in Beijing’s communities and villages so as to solve the problem of inadequate and overly expensive medical services in Beijing.