Working with Digital Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, one of our top developers, Phil,was presenting with BCC at the 25th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks.
Over the next 20 years there will be demographic shift from predominantly younger populations to older ones. Current models of care and pathways require transforming to become more citizen focused and support greater community resilience and sustainability. This will require different approaches to innovation to improve quality of life for people as they age, reduce onset of frailty as well as support those better with long term conditions around self-management and prevention strategies. Health and social care providers are looking at how they augment traditional clinical health related services with the use of IoT technologies and smart city services.
Our project with BCC is to work with elderly people using a range of IoT solutions from wearable technology, to beacons connected to your smart phone and a personal data store (DLB) enabling the user to better manage their data and activities. The captured data can be used in two ways: