Researchers from Lemgo are by now also working on precise solutions for the healthcare industry: It’s the projects aim to find solutions how public and science can benefit from progress with technology and digitalization. In collaboration with project partners researcher from inIT will conduct a survey in a first step to analyze the needs and wants of the parties involved. In a second step precise technologies for the use in a retirement home will be developed. The approaches – for example technical assistant and security functions -will be implemented to the retirement home “Breipohls Hof” in Bielefeld. Professor Volker Lohweg, project leader and board of inIT, explains: “We take care of Smart Health Technologies and Approaches, like for example mobile health applications and assistant systems in the context of Industry 4.0”.
Several partners are involved in the project: OWL University, the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld as well as the ZIG (Zentrum für Innovation in der Gesundheitswirtschaft). They will jointly develop strategies and approaches for prevention, rehab and care as well as assistant systems for the everyday life support of disabled persons. “Our fields of expertise Real-Time Image Processing and Sensor- and Information Fusion are not just a benefit for the industrial sector. We also can show opportunities and advantages for the healthcare sector”, so Dr. Dörksen.
At inIT a program for image stabilization will be developed that helps people with trembling hands to take sharp images with their smartphones. Handicapped persons can use these technologies for an increase in their life quality. For example they can easily stay in touch with their families.
The project gains experiences in the use of assistant technologies and creates new impulses for new services in the fields of healthcare and life quality. Barbara Steffens took her time to come to Bielefeld for this event and to personally appraise herself of the benefits of assistant technologies.
Also the grant statement was handed over at the event from the regional business developments of Kreis Lippe and Höxter. With the help of information and communication technologies approaches will be developed to support mobility of the elderly in rural areas as well as strengthening volunteerism.
About „Project Workshop Health 4.0“:
Several partners from research and health industry are – beside the inIT – involved in the project. The project workshop was successful in the call for projects from Regio.NRW and will be conducted within the action plan “OWL 4.0 – Industry, Work, and Society”. It is funded by the European Regional Development Funds with around 550,000€. Research contents are Mobile Health, Human Mechatronics, Clinic 4.0 and user orientation in the context of digitalization.