お知らせ • Jun 10
Spacetalk Limited Launches Fall Detection Technology for Seniors
Spacetalk Ltd. announced the release of Fall Detection on all Spacetalk LIFE smartphone watches for seniors via a free over-the-air upgrade. Fall Detection is a significant enhancement to Spacetalk LIFE, incorporating breakthrough technology and considerably broadening its use-case and marketability as an assistive device. Falls are the second leading cause of accidental injury and deaths worldwide. Among the most vulnerable are adults aged 65 years+ who make up most of those who experience serious falls. Falls are Australia's largest contributor to hospitalised injury cases and a leading cause of injury deaths. In 2017-18, 42% of hospitalised injury cases and 40% of injury deaths were due to falls.1 Falls can happen to anyone at any location, but falls requiring hospitalisation are more common in older people, with more than 1 in 3 elderly Australians experiencing a fall each year. Accurate Fall Detection is a complex process that not only involves the real time analysis of the wearer's movement data but also the real time application of this data to the person's individual anthropometric, medical and other critical personal information. Spacetalk's onboarding process collects wearers' base fall associated data, which includes age, height, weight, gender, fall history, medication, psychological condition, dizziness and other information. This is stored in a secure and de-personalised manner on the device and Spacetalk's servers, and is used to calculate the wearer's fall risk profile and initial device sensor sensitivity setting. Spacetalk LIFE devices have built-in intelligent accelerometer and gyroscope sensors, which continuously record and relay data of users' movements, speed and altitude back to Spacetalk servers. In real time, this data is triangulated with the wearer's anthropometric, medical and other critical
personal information to determine whether the wearer's current movement should be interpreted as a fall, and if so, activate the Fall Detection Alert process. The wearer has 30 seconds to cancel the Alert process if they are okay or the algorithms calculated a false fall alert. All information and data is used in real time to continuously learn and enhance the accuracy of the overall Fall Detection technology. Updated device firmware and sensor settings are sent as over-the-air updates to the device to improve the technology automatically. Once a fall has been detected, the device will vibrate, sound an alarm and display an alert on the watch face for 30 seconds, during which time the wearer can cancel the alarm. If the alarm is not cancelled, it will SMS all emergency contacts an alert with the wearer's location and sequentially call each emergency contact. If none of the contacts respond, emergency services (000) or third party 24/7 emergency responders are contacted. After successfully contacting emergency responders the watch displays a confirmation message to the wearer for 10 seconds to provide them assurance and then switches to displaying the Medical ID functionality for emergency responders to view the user's relevant medical and other critical details. In developing the technology, the Company worked closely with aged/home care, NDIS and 24/7 emergency services providers to ensure their systems could digitally receive wearers' relevant information and location in the event of a fall or emergency. Spacetalk LIFE's new real time data collection, AI and machine learning technology advancements lay the groundwork for its future potential capabilities to monitor behaviour in order to predict the increasing risk of an oncoming fall or other medical condition. This technology is breaking new ground and is a step-change and world-first for devices designed for seniors and people with special needs. Included in the Fall Detection release, Spacetalk LIFE now has life-saving Medical ID functionality, which provides emergency services and healthcare professionals with the wearer's medical, allergy and other critical personal information, to inform the course of treatment when seconds count. After an SOS or Fall Detection process has been completed, the watch pulses a bright red display to alert and draw emergency responders' attention to press a button to view the wearer's Medical ID. A simple on-boarding process has been developed including a VIDEO which makes it user friendly to activate these new features. First launched in June 2020 as an all-in-one smartphone watch with GPS for older Australians, Spacetalk LIFE's potential to support the journey of ageing - enhancing independence, healthy living, social connectivity, and safety, while providing reassurance and peace of mind to family and friends - has attracted significant interest from aged/home care providers, NDIS providers and Occupational Therapists ("OTs"). Other LIFE features include SOS alert, GPS locator, 4G phone, water (shower) proof, medication and other reminders, step counter, wearer's medical history information for emergency responders, and a carer-family app to allow easy communication and enhanced interactions at the wearer's discretion. LIFE retails at a price of $399, approximately 40% less than other lower featured devices currently available and requires pairing with the Spacetalk App for a $7.99 per month fee and a 4G SIM. The full cost of the device and the first 12 months of the App fee may be supported by Government funding to eligible persons.