Chenlizhe (Mark) Yang

The aging population will be one of the most significant issues of our time, as the rapidly increasing number of older people will put more considerable pressure on the primary medical security system. The research field is telemedicine, which allows remote health data monitoring and collection for elderly patients at home through non-invasive methods. At the same time, through the interaction of the elderly and the entire home environment, the ecosystem might promote healthier household behaviours for older people.

By applying this telemedicine ecosystem based on the home environment, it is possible to reduce the frequency of regular visits and consultations for elderly patients with chronic diseases to the hospital every week or every month.
Similarly, this ecosystem can also help family doctors of the elderly obtain the professional medical data they need more quickly through cloud data statistics and artificial intelligence analysis. More importantly, with the help of this smart medical home care system, the elderly can throw most of their health monitoring equipment away and enjoy their lovely family time.

Unlike other light bulbs on the market, this smart light bulb is embedded with a high pixel camera, infrared sensors, two mini-projectors, and a speaker.
The smart light bulb can provide the most basic lighting function for elderly users and collect health-related information like body temperature and the daily diet through activities, with the help of these sensors and cameras.

This multifunctional cushion incorporates a resistive wire in a nylon mesh that triggers activation when used by elderly users due to the elastic deformation of the nylon mesh. The nylon mesh is also capable of monitoring the weight of the elderly. With the use of six highly efficient ultrasonic sensors, the blood pressure and blood oxygen of the elderly can be observed in real-time while they are sitting on the cushion. The cushion will heat the nylon grid and generate vibrations at different frequencies to remind the elderly to stand up if they are sedentary.

By cooperating with the smart light bulbs and the multifunctional cushion, this system can positively change the household behaviours of the elderly. Such as using high-efficiency multi-colour LED spotlights to guide or remind the older people’s daily household behaviours.
After a relative period of using the light system, the elderly will have subconscious behaviours on the functions represented by colour guidance, which can achieve the system objective to promote healthy home behaviours to the elderly.

The ecosystem will assess older users’ home behaviours on that day and merge this data with their social software. Elderly users can compare the total score ranking of their health behaviours with their friends on that day by using the psychological qualities of older users in gamification. The system will also provide them with some recommendations on how to increase their total score.
This gamified health family scoring system for elderly users can allow the elderly to participate in this telemedicine service system as much as possible, encourage use of these health monitoring devices, and try to self-supervise healthier life behaviours.