Smart Ward Monitoring Integrated Platform

Overview

All-in-one, real time patient vital signs monitoring, and alerting (heart rhythms & respiratory problems, falls and leaving the ward) platform.

Research completion

2024

Commercialisation opportunities

· IP licensing· Technology co-development

Problem addressed

Unexpected Cardiac & Respiratory Deterioration, Falls, and Missing are persistent pain points in wards in hospital. Traditional vital sign monitoring equipment are bulky and involve numerous cables, limiting the scalability. Now, there is also lack of integrated solutions, including simultaneous health monitoring, geofencing and fall detection functions to address various observation pain points in wards.

Innovation

Reusable chest patch that collects a patient’s real time vital signs (i.e., electrocardiogram (ECG) / respiratory curve, skin temperature and galvanic skin response (GSR) level) and motion data. Then it uploads them to the AI engines in the backend server wirelessly.
Hong Kong-specified patient monitoring platform which integrates: AI engines to detect heart rhythms and respiratory problems, fall events and leaving the ward; continuous patient status monitoring; and alert notification.
Compact size, weight only around 59g, and the approximate dimension is 12cm * 7cm * 1.5cm.

Key impact

Enhances the safety of patients.
Improves the efficiency of patient monitoring.

Application

Smart Hospital Ward
Nursing Homes
Home Personal Care

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Trust and AI Technologies; Communications Technologies; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies and Integrated Circuits and Systems. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New-Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.

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