Marianne Olsson is one of ten people who are part of a pilot project. Her home has been equipped with sensors that detect her everyday activities and collecting data about this.
The idea is that the system should be able to detect any abnormalities that may indicate disease.
Marianne carries a sensor that can register the walking speed when she is at home. Sensors are also deployed to notice when she opens a certain dressers, when she opens the fridge when she sits down on a chair in the kitchen, when she goes to the bathroom and when she lies down in his bed.
Tones
If a person goes to the toilet more often than usual, for example, indicate high blood sugar, as a person with insufficiently medicated diabetes get.
If you are less active than usual, it may signal heart problems or depression.
Marianne and the other test subjects belong not really the intended audience for the system, but is younger and healthier.
– We have selected healthy volunteers for not exposing sick for stress. We can not currently guarantee how it works, says Carina Berg, project manager and occupational therapist in Skövde.
The data collected about how she moves and what she does in her private home does not bother Marianne Olsson.
– Could it lead to something good in the future, then it is okay. It is not so mysterious. What would someone have the joy of these tasks? said Marianne Olsson.
Carina Berg celebrates his subjects very enthusiastic and patient. Indeed, it has been needed some patience.
– There has been a lot of technical problems, says Carina Berg.
Large projects
Try Operations in Skovde is part of an EU project called Helicopter, as nine organizations in five countries collaborate on. The sensors have been developed in Italy and a PhD from the University of Parma was the home of Marianne and installed all the technical equipment in the home for a long afternoon.
The data the system collects is sent to researchers in Romania for analysis. In Dutch Eindhoven in progress as well as in Skovde an attempt to test the equipment in the home.
In Italy, the sensors only been tested in the lab before, and when they are used in home environments discovered new problems. Marianne and the other subjects also have an e-book reader which through a special app to be able to receive messages from the system, such as they have been in bed very unusual in recent days. This is not yet, but is being developed.
The idea is that the test subjects should have a scale, a blood pressure monitor and a blood glucose meter in the home, the system will be able to collect data from. But even with this, there have been technical problems, which meant that it does not work yet.
Co
Cooperation in the EU project has not gone entirely smoothly, and cultural differences has revealed himself, according to Carina Berg.
– We in Sweden and the Netherlands are relatively similar. We are open to what we have to worry. Not so in Italy and Romania, says Carina Berg.
The project started in 2013 and will be completed by summer. According to Carina Berg, it is unclear who might be buyers of the advanced system.
The idea is that the technology could be used to boost security for the elderly living at home.
– It can prevent so that I do not need to get there, so that the elderly of their independence, says Carina Berg, who is the only occupational therapist involved in the project.
Jönköping Business School and the University of Skövde is and Skövde partner in the project.
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