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A Taiwanese company is offering an Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (AIoT) solution package including hardware, software and cloud platform as a turnkey solution to customers regarding hospitals and elderly homes.

The company integrates Taiwan’s cutting-edge IoT (Internet of Things) technology with sensing devices, communication gateways, IPCs (Industrial PCs) and servers. The in-house algorithm team is then able to carry out patient behaviour analysis, vision identification and mobile robot management from these devices. The management team has more than 15 years’ experience working in the medical and smart city fields.

The company offers a Solution Ready Package (SRP) including hardware, software and a cloud platform as turnkey a solution to customers. The primary target market focuses on digital health, which includes three end-user markets: hospitals (used in digital medical management systems, automated medicine dispensing robots, etc.), elderly homes (used in smart sensor mattresses, personal health record wearable devices, etc.), and homecare. In addition, their solution also covers smart education, industry 4.0 and EV (electric vehicle) car charging stations within smart city field.

The solution package could be applied in an all-in-one vital sign station, which could send multiple physiological data including blood pressure, blood sugar, oxygen saturation (SpO2), weight, height to medical computers, portable monitors or even the cloud system. All the data collection could be integrated with hospital information system (HIS) or electronic medical record (EMR) via application programming interface (API).

The solution package could also be applied in digital papers including door signboard, bedside terminal, intensive care unit (ICU) and ward communication board in hospitals. All the patients’ information will be shown on the digital papers and let caregivers and medical team for communication to optimize medical and care process. All the data could also be integrated with hospital information system (HIS) or electronic medical record (EMR) via application programming interface (API), and is in compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the EU GDPR.

Partner type could be system integrator or medical computer agent serving public and private health sectors, hospitals, elderly homes, etc.
The company is also welcome medical device partners looking for original design manufacturing and original equipment manufacturing in hardware and software integration. For example, an automated dispensing cabinet including facial recognition for authority, medicine identification and drug safety management system.

Advantages & innovations

Rather than selling traditional hardware or software, the company provides innovative service model, named “Solution Ready Package (SRP)”, to the market.The SRP provides a combination of cutting-edge technology hardware and AI algorithm with vertical market domain know-how. Most importantly, these services can operate via a cloud platform to really provide the end user with a service-oriented experience. The company found that the traditional business model of a system integrator who purchases hardware and redevelops software for installation for different customers each time has several disadvantages, such as projects cannot easily make use of the system integrator’s location or resources; the system integrator’s domain know-how will reside with only a few experienced employees; customers cannot anticipate the end result after the project or service proceeds and so on. The new SRP business model can provide many advantages for channel partners, system integrators and end customers. These include built-in vertical market domain knowledge that can continuously accumulate and be widely accessed. Moreover, it is both easy to deploy and scalable – the SRP is considered to be fast to install and fast to market. Therefore, it can save effort and resources for system installation. Additionally, it can cross regional boundaries and help distributors or system integrators expand their business to a wider market. Furthermore, being service-oriented, the basic concept of our SRP is to provide a cloud-based system that helps with system installation, continuous review of service efficiency, or workload reduction for end-users Giving an example, the solution package could be applied in digital papers including door signboard, bedside terminal, intensive care unit (ICU) and ward communication board in hospitals. All the patients’ information will be shown on the digital papers and let caregivers and medical team for communication to optimize medical and care process

Stage of development

Already on the market

Partner sought

Partner type could be system integrator or medical computer agent, serving public and private health sectors, hospitals, elderly homes, etc. under commercial agency or distribution services agreement. The company also provides original design manufacturing (ODM) and original equipment manufacturing (OEM) services and is looking for partners who will be interested in cooperating hardware and software integration under the manufacturing agreement. For example, an automated dispensing cabinet including facial recognition for authority, medicine identification and drug safety management system.