March 2016

All posts from March 2016

Blockchains for improved healthcare management

Our new project PICASO have now started. The project aims at improving the situation for patients with multi-morbidities, that is several unrelated diseases. One of the biggest problems is that their health information is stored and managed in many different locations, making it difficult for different care organisations to get the overall picture of the patient’s health status and history of treatments and therapies.

CNet who is the technical coordinator of PICASO will develop new solutions based on blockchain technology to management and exchange distributed patient health data in a secure and trusted way. This is part of our innovation area Disease Management and Elderly Care.


Ulf WingstedtBlockchains for improved healthcare management

New study on social care technologies for elderly

The CAMI project has completed a study on elderly patients attitudes and needs of patient monitoring and social care technologies in the home.The study showed that a portable computer is the most common mobile device (67%), followed by smart phones (48%) and tablets (30%). 90% of the respondents have Internet access. The respondents were asked about various social care technologies and if thought they could be helpful in their daily lifes. See below for the percentage of the respondents that thought the following devices would be a good idea and helpful

  • 54% “a robot with a touch screen which you can use anywhere around the house for socializing, communication with other people and for providing information”
  • 48% “a robot remind you on tasks and medication”
  • 51% “a robot supervising your house through various sensors and alerting in case of problems”
  • 50% “a robot bring you of water, your medication or any other small object”.

From the study it was also clear that “remembering to take their pills and medication” was one of the biggest problems for the respondents.

59% was very interested in “viewing graphic displays of your various health measurements (blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen levels) and their change in time and 60% thought it was a good idea to share these health measurements with their doctors.

105 persons aged between 55 and 75 years in Denmark, Poland and Romania was part of the study as well as 58 caregivers.

Ulf WingstedtNew study on social care technologies for elderly

CNet installs Smart Farming Solution in Finland

This week we are going  to the Finnish farm Maaninka to install a smart farming solution. The farm is located close to Kuopio in the northern Finland. As part of the  CLAFIS project we have used LinkSmart .net to IoT-enable different farming equipment such as feed mixer weight scales. Through the MODBUS and OPC protocols we are able to control the equipment from the high level interface provide by LinkSmart. This makes it possible for developers of HMI  (Human Machine Interfaces)  inside tractors and other farming machines to provide solutions that can optimizing the feeding of animals, harvesting and sowing.

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Ulf WingstedtCNet installs Smart Farming Solution in Finland

EnergyInBalance Solar Energy App Expands User Base

Our Solar Energy app marketed by the EnergyInBalance service has now reached 500 users with solar energy installations. The Solar Energy app uses Internet of Things technology to measure the ongoing energy production from a solar panel installation. The solar energy production is visualised in realtime in an iOS and Android smart phone appp. The EnergyInBalance Solar app also aggregates the total ongoing production from all available installations in Sweden and displays it in realtime to the users.

Ulf WingstedtEnergyInBalance Solar Energy App Expands User Base