Lahti Science and Business Park Ltd

EU senior citizens as active users of

gerontechnology solutions, 26-28th May, 2009

Possibilities and needs of gerontechnology

solutions/ Creative and innovative ICT

solutions in the elderly care

Jyrki Rautkivi

May 26th, 2009 | Wanha Herra, Lahti

CONTENT

•Lahti Science and Business Park Ltd.

•Langaton Lahti – Wireless Lahti

development program

•Some examples/ achievements

� Promotes and assists growth orientated businesses , particularly in

Wellbeing and Cleantech industry, by Wireless Lahti program ICT

industry as well

� Assists in development and investment in the Lahti region and cultivates

innovative activity in the area.

Lahti Science and Business Park Ltd

Environment for Growth

innovative activity in the area.

� Responsible for the development and internationalization of the Finnish

environmental technology cluster.

� Mainly owned (84%) by the municipalities in the region, 40 employees,

annual turnover around 6 M€

� Two way functionality:

1) To the assigners, like elderly care organizations:

� Promotes the utilization of the ICT solutions in the assigner’s

organization in order to help them to implement their mission in an

efficient and competitive way

Langaton Lahti – Wireless Lahti

development program and

network of actors

efficient and competitive way

2) To the region’s innovative ICT companies:

� Provides wide range of supporting activities to promote their

businesses; central focus on customer need based solutions and

creation of value added to the customers/assigners

WIRELESS LAHTIA NETWORK OF ACTORS WITH EQUAL IMPORTANCE

RESEARCH - AND

TECHNOLOGY

PARTNERS

-VTT, LUT, LUAS, HU, HUT -Strategic industrial partners

Elderly care

-Improved products and services-Cost efficiency-Savings-Improved rate

WIRELESS

LAHTI

-Participates in elderly care organizations’ process analyses and development

-Searches for technology platform

SERVICE PROVIDERS

-Dynamic and innovative, often entrepreneur driven companies at early stages on the life cycle

-Improved rate of capacity utilization

technology platform and service provider(s)

-Organizes pilots

-Searches for valuation/research body

-Assists in PR and marketing

-Searches for financing

WIRELESS LAHTI

A LIVING LAB”FROM PILOTS TO WELL DEVELOPED SERVICES”

Needs for development (bottlenecks and constraints)

Conceptualization, development

Piloting and further

Nation wide and international commercial distributionconstraints)

identified in the processes of the client organizations

development and production

further development

distribution

� Mobile Safe Track Ltd: WLAN based security for elderly citizens with

minor dementia (more detailed in the exhibition hall)

� Elsi elderly care: In apartment security through electronically

detective floor (more detailed in the exhibition hall)

� Suomen Puheentunnistus Oy: Speech recognition based patient

Achievements, examples

� Suomen Puheentunnistus Oy: Speech recognition based patient

register and home service management systems; patient records on

line by dictations ->hands free for caring/nursing (more detailed in

the exhibition hall)

� Service Online Software Ltd: Preventive activation and service

marketplace through mobile calendar

� Sympa HR: Competence and task/fleet management based actively

utilized HR tool

•Protected Item is Equipped with a small intelligent MST

Tracking Device which recognizes all available WLANs

in its Proximity

•A Virtual Surveillance/Control Area is created using

WLAN routers. MST can move freely Within this Area

Without any Track of Movements

MST

Alerts and Tracking Combined

Without any Track of Movements

•MST changes its Mode to Alert when it moves outside

of its Surveillance Area

•When in Alert mode MST sends information of all

WLAN stations it Locates

•Based upon WLAN Station Data, the Surveillance

Center calculates the Location of the Device

•Movements of the Tracking Device can only be

followed by Authorised Systems and Persons

Lahti Science and Business Park Ltd

Environment for Growth We are developing the Lahti region into a World-Class

Centre for Environmental Business and Research

LAHDEN TIEDE- JA YRITYSPUISTO OY | LAHTI SCIENCE AND BUSINESS PARK LTD

Niemenkatu 73 | FI-15140 LAHTI FINLAND | info@lahtisbp.fi | www.lahtisbp.fi | Tel. +358 (03)3 8114 11 | Fax +358 (0)3 8833 000

Jyrki Rautkivi

Program coordinator

+358 50 346 8927

jyrki.rautkivi@lahtisbp.fi