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VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's
leading high-tech applied research institutions, today announced
the introduction of smart medical innovations at CES 2025 booth
8430, North Hall, LVCC, and its event website. The smart
medical technologies include the High-Privacy AI Digital Caregiver,
the Intelligent Medical Assistant Solution (iMAS), Janus,
MedBobi and iKNOBeads.
The High-Privacy AI Digital Caregiver, co-developed by ITRI and
Streamteck, is an advanced remote monitoring system that utilizes
thermal imaging and millimeter wave radar technologies to detect
patients' vital signs and activities with hospital-level accuracy
while maintaining privacy. The system tracks bed exits, falls and
prolonged inactivity, and promptly alerts caregivers via a mobile
app when abnormalities are detected. With its compact design, it is
perfect for use in clinics, wards, nursing homes and homes,
offering a cost-effective telemedicine solution.
The High-Privacy AI Digital Caregiver features:
- Privacy thermal imaging: This eliminates the need for
cameras, ensuring patient privacy. With a fine resolution of 3.75
cm (compared to a competitor's 60 cm), it precisely identifies
images and boasts an action detection error rate of <1% for
activities like prolonged lying, bed exits and falling.
- Real-time alerts: Sent via a mobile app, real-time
alerts immediately notify caregivers of any abnormal incidents such
as fever, shortness of breath or falls. This feature enables early
detection of emergencies, reducing staff response time from one
hour to just one minute. It significantly improves remote
monitoring, emergency response rates and outcomes.
- Multi-sensory module: Its 60-GHz mmWave radar and
thermal imaging sensors accurately detect body temperature, heart
rate, respiration rate, blood pressure and blood oxygen saturation,
matching the accuracy of hospital equipment.
- AI-powered calibration: AI-based noise filtering and IoT
capabilities work together to minimize interference based on the
distance from the heat source, ambient temperature and humidity,
ensuring accurate body temperature detection and continuous motion
analysis.
- Hospital-level precision: The High-Privacy AI Digital
Caregiver stands out as the only care product on the market
offering hospital-level accuracy. In collaboration with Streamteck,
ITRI tested 50 units at a Taipei City Hospital long-term care
facility, where they successfully met National Early Warning Score
(NEWS) standards. Unlike competitors with up to a 10% margin in
respiration detection accuracy, the High-Privacy AI Digital
Caregiver achieves accuracy of <±2 bpm for respiratory rate,
<5% for heart rate, <±0.3 degrees Celsius for body
temperature, <±2% for blood oxygen, and maintains a 90% accuracy
rate for blood pressure trends. It also has an action detection
error of <1% for activities such as prolonged standing, sitting,
lying down, bed exits and falling.
Many care facilities suffer from inadequate equipment and
staffing. The High-Privacy AI Digital Caregiver allows care staff
to monitor patients remotely. This reduces the need for frequent
in-person visits and checks, alleviating the workload on health
workers and helping to address workforce shortages.
Booth visitors at CES 2025 can experience how this advanced
system tracks their vital signs—without the need for cameras or
wearables—with remarkable accuracy comparable to hospital equipment
while ensuring privacy and comfort. Visitors can also see the
system in action as it detects critical events such as bed exits,
falls and prolonged inactivity, providing real-time alerts via a
mobile app.
The Intelligent Medical Assistant Solution
(iMAS) integrates multiple lightweight and portable medical
devices to offer a comprehensive telemedicine solution for patients
with limited access to healthcare. Its intelligent medical imaging
technology aids in diagnostic interpretation, enabling physicians
to provide remote diagnoses. Physicians can monitor patient
conditions in real time, helping to prevent treatment delays.
During remote visits, physicians can easily carry the portable iMAS
to deliver swift diagnosis and care. iMAS serves as a "homespital"
solution that seamlessly combines home care and hospital services.
This innovative solution has been licensed to 36 vendors including
collaboration with Thailand's
largest telecom company.
Janus, an AI-powered cybersecurity solution, is
transforming medical device manufacturing. By integrating
seamlessly into the process, it helps manufacturers meet rigorous
global compliance standards like FDA, HIPAA, and NIST. Janus
proactively protects devices from cyber threats, monitors M-IoT
communications in real time, and detects suspicious activities. It
simplifies network logs, updates firewalls dynamically, and
streamlines compliance processes. This not only enhances product
security but also boosts market competitiveness. As healthcare
demands robust data protection, Janus offers a reliable and
efficient solution, setting a new standard for smart cybersecurity
in medical devices.
MedBobi is a smart medical assistant system that uses
multimodal generative AI and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
technology to rapidly create medical reports from voice input and
other data. It can understand up to 96 languages such as English,
Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, Spanish, French and Thai and can
convert speech into text, reducing medical staff's administrative
work time by 75%. The system integrates voice input, pathological
images and patient records to provide AI-powered personalized
medical recommendations. Additionally, MedBobi features a
professional dementia database, allowing users to better understand
the disease through text-based Q&A and obtain personalized care
plans.
iKNOBeads, the world's first and only magnetic microbeads with
controllable morphology, are designed to activate immune cells in
the fight against diseases. Their uniform bead size ensures
batch-to-batch reproducibility, while the bumpy body design
maximizes cell interaction, enhancing activation efficiency and
reducing the required bead quantity. This innovative approach
surpasses traditional activation materials and offers a more
effective and economical feeder-free platform for generating
high-quality and quantity immune cells for therapy. The
adaptability of iKNOBeads technology, through surface modification,
allows for a wide range of immunotherapy applications, promising
potential breakthroughs in disease treatment that could
revolutionize the field and bring hope to millions.
ITRI's smart medical technologies are making their U.S. debut at
CES 2025. ITRI invites potential collaborators for technology
transfers and business partnerships. Interested parties can book a
meeting here.
Access ITRI's CES 2025 press kit here. Additional multimedia
materials including technology videos, photos, and fact sheets are
available here.
About ITRI
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is one of the
world's leading technology R&D institutions aiming to innovate
a better future for society. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a
vital role in transforming Taiwan's industries from labor-intensive into
innovation-driven. To address market needs and global trends, it
has launched its 2035 Technology Strategy and Roadmap that focuses
on innovation development in Smart Living, Quality Health,
Sustainable Environment, and Resilient Society.
Over the years, ITRI has been dedicated to incubating startups
and spinoffs, including well-known names such as UMC and TSMC. In
addition to its headquarters in Taiwan, ITRI has branch offices in the U.S.,
Germany, Japan, and Thailand in an effort to extend its R&D
scope and promote international cooperation across the globe. For
more information, please visit https://www.itri.org/eng.
Media contacts
Annie Wu
Office of Marketing Communications, ITRI
+886-3-591-8406
aiyunwu@itri.org.tw
Caroline Kamerschen
Bospar
PRforITRI@bospar.com
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