Infrared Thermal Sensing Safety Alert System
Overview
This Infrared Thermal Sensing Safety Alert System is a privacy preserving system designed for monitoring an individual’s safety in a private space. It analyses the real-time thermal data of the private space to determine whether the individual needs support from their caregivers.
Research completion
2017
Commercialisation opportunities
Technology licensing
Problem addressed
Falling or fainting in bathroom is common accident among the eldery. Because of the high privacy level in bathroom, the accident often can't be awared immediately. The support of medical treatment will be postponed.
Innovation
- This low-cost thermal sensing technology can help detect and analyse human movement. When body movement is not detected for a period of time, an alarm will alert the caregivers that the person being looked after may be in danger.
- It is a privacy preserving system that uses a lower resolution thermal sensor to monitor an individual’s safety in a private space.
Key impact
- Enhance the work efficiency of the elderly home and the arrangement of manpower
Award
- Gold Medal at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in 2019
- Silver Medal at the 1st Asia Exhibition of Inventions Hong Kong in 2018
Application
- Elderly homes or elderly centres
Patent
- US 16/234,693
- CN 2018 1162 3707
- HK 18113867.3
Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM)
Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre (LSCM) was founded in 2006, with funding from the Innovation and Technology Fund of The Government of the Hong Kong SAR, and is co-hosted by the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. It aims to strengthen the local logistics sector and related industries by providing a one-stop resource for applied research and technology transfer, and to reinforce cooperation between the industry and research institutes to bring about meaningful and significant impact on the industry and the community.
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