Description
Module/Solution Overview
The City4Age Birmingham pilot provides participants with wearable tech (Nokia Activite/ Steel watch) which utilises the Nokia Health Mate App (available on both iOS and Android) and combined with the use of their own smart phone, captures data about the participants’ physical activity – steps, distance travelled, physical activity, calories burned, quality of sleep as well as health data, such as mood and socialisation data which is collected via a dedicated and secure Digital Logbook (a web based enterprise portal tool). Outdoor beacon locator sensors positioned in places of interest in the local community, for example: café’s, libraries, supermarket, community centre and bus stops; register the frequency of visits via Bluetooth to a custom-built City4Age Beacon Locator App on the participants’ smart phone. The Beacon Locator App is configured to know the names of the beacons; it does not know their exact locations. When the App sees an appropriately named beacon, it will report proximity to the BCC Local Repository. The BCC Local Repository will check that it recognises the beacon unique identifier, acknowledge receipt to the app and store the information for later processing.
The City4Age Android Beacon Locator App is responsible for collecting information on entry and exit of the participants’ identified outdoor places of interest.
The Nokia Health Steel watch captures the participants’ health, motility and physical activity data; and the Birmingham pilot Digital Logbook is responsible for collecting and processing all data of LEAs and measures, and sending them to the local repository which periodically sends them to the City4Age central repository.
Innovation
The City4Age Birmingham pilot Beacon Locator App is the main innovation as it enables the capture of outdoor information on the participants’ behaviour and motility patterns in a unobtrusive way for the participants (as once installed the App runs in the background and no interaction from the user is required); and could be applied in other sectors of Local Government services such as Transportation.
Business Impact
Policy makers and geriatricians / care givers can identify segments of the population that may need close monitoring and understand which behaviour changes can be considered negative (and potentially at risk) and generate intervention plans. Technology supported intervention can support a more effective and less expensive option to traditional intervention to support wider screening and monitoring.
Older people can benefit from more tailored information and activities that will involve them in better self-management and awareness of services to maintain independence for as long as possible. It could help older people make use of their personal activity and daily living information along with other information in a way that will help them stay independent and active for as long as possible and reduce the onset of frailty.
Interoperability
The Birmingham pilot Beacon Locator App uses standard Estimote sensors and sources to get the behavioural information, such as Bluetooth Low Energy and GPS, and communicates using REST API. This means that it is interoperable and easily scalable if new sensors come to the market.
Stakeholders profile
Health related professionals that would like to monitor behaviours of patients or careers.
Academic Researchers that would like to analyse elderly behaviours, whether in isolation or as part of a wider research piece perhaps analysing the use and impact of technology by older citizens.
Policy makers, service providers, GPs, healthcare professionals, geriatricians / care givers, etc. to enable targeted technology supported interventions for elderly citizens.
Competitors
There are a number of wearable technologies and associated Applications available that collect data on the physical movement of users i.e. Nokia Health Mate, FitBit, etc. but these are limited in their application and are not location specific or monitor the frequency of social activities. Therefore, there is not anything currently available to Local Authorities that is non-commercial, unobtrusive and adheres to personal privacy issues with the ability to collected wider personal data relative to other sector services.
If we take a look at behaviours within a city, taking into account where the user goes, Google detects tentative behaviours according to your daily life activities.
Through the use of these developed apps, the Birmingham pilot captures a combination of behaviours, analysed from a geriatric point of view, and supports older people make use of their personal activity and daily living information along with other information in a way that will help them stay independent and active for as long as possible and reduce the onset of frailty.
Future availability
Openly accessible via the Google Play Store
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