What makes the Emerald device, your start- up’s breakthrough technology, different?
Right now, with diseases like Alzheimer’s, the best we can do is control the symptoms, but we can’t cure the disease because we don’t even know where it comes from. Data, or objective numbers, is the best thing we have in the fight against these diseases. Algorithms are also important here: artificial intelligence will help us extract the data that would be useful. Whenever I go to a doctor’s appointment in America, they measure my pulse, blood pres- sure, blood oxygen saturation, etc. I may have gone there for something specific — let’s say, my leg hurts — but they always measure all these things for me because they know that this data can save lives. Instead of doing this once a year during the wellness check-up, with our technology, you can measure people’s conditions constantly while they are at home.
R.H.: The combination of radar technology and artificial intelligence did not exist before we started developing this project. What we have invented is a radar that works in people’s homes. The device hangs on the wall and can monitor the location of people — whether they are sitting, lying down, walking, where exactly they are walking and how fast. We can also measure vital signs such as breathing rate and sleep phases without people wearing any sensors on their bodies and without even making contact with them.
How can we use this information?
R.H.: Every time I go to the doctor, I realize how difficult their job is. A guy comes in with some random complaint, and you have to be like Sherlock Holmes and figure out what the problem is.
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