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Platform for Sleep Monitoring

HeraldK — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:09:21 +0000

The platform provided by Sewon Intelligence monitors health status 24 hours a day in real time using wearable sensors and sensors in products in preparation for the era of new normal, such as non-face-to-face, telecommuting, and online lectures.

It is a real-time health monitoring system that informs and manages users of health status monitoring results and provides measured data to doctors when visiting hospitals to enable more accurate diagnosis. Sewon Intelligence is a company that is responsible for preventive health by continuously monitoring personal health anywhere, anytime. How well do you know your sleeping habits? In fact, it is not easy to grasp various habits during sleep by yourself, such as snoring badly while sleeping, waking up frequently, or moving your body unconsciously while sleeping. However, in order to maintain a pleasant physical condition during the day, it is necessary to identify sleep patterns and tame lifestyle habits accordingly.

Of course, those who cannot sleep well due to sleep diseases such as insomnia, REM sleep exercise disorder, and sleep apnea need a thorough examination. For an accurate diagnosis, the hospital conducts polysomnography. But this test takes a lot of time and money. Since it is an inspection performed while sleeping, it usually takes from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next day, including the time to attach the inspection equipment to the whole body. The waiting time for the examination is also considerable. When patients were crowded, it sometimes took more than six months to wait. Although the burden on patients has decreased since the insurance was applied, the cost of testing is still considerable in the late 100,000 won range. In addition, the polysomnography test is covered by insurance only for patients with sleep apnea, so they cannot receive insurance benefits when they are tested for insomnia or REM sleep exercise disorder.

If you are simply curious about your sleeping habits or want to prevent diseases, you don’t have to take a polysomnography test. However, it is true that there is no suitable device to measure sleep activities on its own. Of course, there are wearable devices such as Fitbit and Apple Watch on the market, but the information provided by these devices is less accurate. In other words, it is not highly correlated with the polysomnography results. While polysomnography comprehensively measures and diagnoses various information such as brain waves, eye movements, electromyography, heart rate information, and breathing, this device is based only on heart rate information.

In addition, there is a disadvantage that existing wearable devices must always be worn on the wrist.In order to measure sleeping habits, you need to accumulate data for a long time, but it is cumbersome to wear a device every day when you sleep. Sleep tech monitoring company (Sewon Intelligence) has not only advanced contactless breathing measurement technology to compensate for this inconvenience and low accuracy of existing wearable devices, but also introduced artificial intelligence (AI) in breathing sound, abdomen and chest movement information.There is various information available through actual respiration measurements. If you can identify breathing during sleep, you can also identify symptoms related to sleep diseases such as snoring and sleep apnea to some extent in advance. This is because when you snore or can’t fall into deep sleep, your breathing changes or gets tangled. Sewon Intelligence’s AI technology allows users to estimate their sleeping habits through micro-recorded breathing sounds during sleep, that is, breathing sounds, on smartphones or AI speakers. Based on the Wi-Fi wireless signal, it also captures the movement of the user’s abdomen and chest.

In order to obtain relevant information, polysomnography requires test equipment to be attached to the chest and abdomen, but if you use the technology, you can measure it at home without contact. Above all, Sewon Intelligence has significantly increased the accuracy of measurement and analysis using AI technology. This is the result of elaborately learning the subtle differences that vary from stage to stage of sleep with the A-slip AI device next to it during the actual polysomnography. In fact, the technology possessed by Sewon Intelligence is nearly 90 percent consistent with the results of the polysomnography test.

This is a high level of accuracy compared to Fitbit, which is considered the most accurate device in academia with wearable sleep analysis. You don’t even have to wear it. As I said earlier, continuous sleep monitoring is needed to improve sleep habits. Even after being diagnosed with sleep disease, constant management is essential. Sewon Intelligence aims to take the lead in providing easy and comfortable, but accurate measurements in a non-contact manner during long sleep hours. Just like checking your weight on a scale, I look forward to the day when home sleeping devices that can check your sleep activities from time to time can be widely used.

▲ SEWON INTELLIGENCE

▲ CEO : SeJin Park

▲ http://www.sewon3h.com

▲ sujin@sewon3h.com

▲ +82-2-777-7301

Sam Kim

Asia Journal

Sewon Intelligence’s real-time health monitoring system

HeraldK — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 23:53:20 +0000

Medicine is to maintain and promote health and prevent diseases, and when you are sick, you can recover and rehabilitate your health so that you can adapt to society. In general, medicine is largely divided into basic medicine, clinical medicine, and preventive medicine. There are three factors that cause the disease to occur. The first is the physical, biological, social, cultural, and economic environment. The second is the host (human), which is related to age, sex, nutrition, lifestyle, and medical type. Third, pathogens (factors) include bacteria, physical factors, and chemicals. Humans and pathogens have a leverage relationship with the environment. Therefore, increasing resistance to human diseases or improving various environments reduces the likelihood of becoming ill relatively. Looking at human history, it has long been trying to prevent diseases. For example, in the Old Testament, there was a practice rate of various hygiene necessary for nomadic life, and cholera and plague were prevalent in the Middle Ages, and quarantine was conducted for this purpose. In Korea, when giving birth, a gold string was hung on the gate to control the access of outsiders, preventing the infection of diseases to babies and mothers born. Humans have been preventing diseases for a long time like this, but they have known it through experience. However, after R. Koch figured out how to separate and cultivate bacteria in 1876, pathogens that cause the disease could be detected, and preventive medicine developed further. The stages of preventing diseases are often divided into three. Maintaining and promoting health through efforts such as improving the environment and increasing resistance to diseases before the outbreak is called primary prevention. It includes controlling physical strength and improving health through jogging and aerobic dance, improving nutrition through meals, and preventing various accidents to prevent high blood pressure and diabetes, which are active prevention. Passively, it refers to preventing the occurrence of diseases by increasing immunity by receiving various vaccinations. Secondary prevention is to find out as early as possible once the outbreak has occurred and treat it, and to prevent the disease from becoming more severe. In other words, regular physical examinations are performed, and middle-aged women undergo regular checkups several times a year for early diagnosis of uterine cancer. The tertiary prevention is to prevent the occurrence of aftereffects when they have already occurred so that physical function is not impaired. On the other hand, if the occurrence of aftereffects is inevitable, it refers to rehabilitation so that they can return to society and adapt. As such, the concept of prevention has been widely applied from before the outbreak of the disease to rehabilitation after the outbreak, and has developed in various ways with the development of medicine. The prevention of these diseases has extended the lifespan of mankind and has greatly contributed to the quality of life. Preventive activities are making mankind as free from the pain of disease as possible. It is grateful to treat the disease when it develops and hurts, but it is desirable to take a step further to prevent the disease, and it is also economical. When sick, treatment costs a lot, income often decreases or disappears, and sometimes even labor is lost. Therefore, prevention or early treatment not only has a double effect but is also efficient. For example, vaccinations against measles or polio do not cost a lot, but once it occurs, not only does it cost a lot of treatment but also causes aftereffects. Therefore, it can be seen that preventive medicine is humanitarian, effective, and economical. These days, preventive activities are becoming very diverse. Acute infectious diseases caused by hospital microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses have been significantly reduced or eradicated due to environmental and nutritional improvements and vaccinations. Rather, non-infectious diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and various cancers are problematic. In Korea, along with rapid economic growth, problems of adult diseases and occupational diseases are emerging. Exposure to toxic chemicals such as exhaust gas from automobiles and factories or harmful radiation, an increase in the smoking population such as teenagers and women, obesity caused by excessive nutrition, and various diseases are challenges that mankind must overcome. Some of these are unknown causes, so they need to be identified, and they know that they are closely related to each other, such as screeching and lung cancer, but some are difficult to solve.

Se-jin Park, CEO of Sewon Intelligence

I would like to introduce Se-jin Park, CEO of Sewon Intelligence to these important issues. He worked for the Korea Institute of Standards and Sciences along 30 years. This institution developed an intelligent real-time monitoring platform with the experience and know-how gained through all products, systems, and environments used by humans. He’s an expert among experts. Perhaps that’s why it seems that the most important part was developed intensively. To explain the core, it is a health platform that measures biometric information in the body, transmits it through wireless communication, processes it as data, and provides it to medical experts to build healthcare services. In particular, the last CES 2020 (Consumer Electronics Show) showed real-time health monitoring while sleeping, and is currently preparing to approve MFDS. In addition, it showed the world’s first “symbolic monitoring system” for the first time in the industry. Next time, it would like to show the development of the technology and utilization of Sewon Intelligence in more detail.

▲ SEWON INTELLIGENCE Co., Ltd

▲ CEO : SeJin Park

▲ http://www.sewon3h.com

▲ sujin@sewon3h.com

▲ +82-2-777-7301

Your watchfulness with AIMON can be the best defense for your baby.

HeraldK — Fri, 28 May 2021 01:36:26 +0000

Accidents are the main cause of injury and even death in children. People tend to relate accidents to traffic accidents or accidents in outdoor activities. However, as a matter of fact, accidental injury is the leading cause of death in kids up to 14 years old — and more than a third of these injuries happen at home. Home — the place which we regard as the safest place — hides many ‘hazards’. Kids explore their everyday environments, so it’s important to see things to make sure your home is safe. It’s true that young kids have the highest risk of being injured at home because that’s where they spend most of their time.

Home accidents are usually due to negligence of safety at home. Common causes of home-injury deaths are falls, suffocation, drowning, choking, poisoning, and burns. Even if your home is childproofed, it only takes an instant for babies and toddlers to fall, run over to a hot stove, or put the wrong thing in their mouths. Most home accidents are preventable through increased awareness, improvements in the home environment and greater product safety. In order to make your home safer, the most important safeguard is to watch young kids at all times.

Here is a smart gadget for parents who deeply worry about the safety of their children. Just make sure your baby wears ‘AIMON Smart Band’ on her or his ankle. It collects four types of vital signs from your baby — heart rate, oxygen saturation, skin temperature, and fall detection —, and then sends it to the gateway. The gateway transmits the vital information to the cloud server or mobile application. It can also detect when your baby is crying. The gateway also displays the communication status of the system and battery with LED lights so that users can identify easily when the gadget is not working.

The mobile application shows real time and cumulative information collected by the band and gateway. Monitoring of Oxygen saturation and fall detection is provided for the babies within 365 days. But vital measurement including heart rate, skin temperature, and cry detection is provided for babies within 1095 days. The technology of AIMON Co., Ltd allows you to keep your child under close supervision whenever and wherever you are.

Watching your child’s safety can be proactive for some measures in preventing home accidents, first aid measures and how to call for help. You can never completely ‘child-proof’ your home. You can, however, dramatically reduce the risk of injuries and keep your child under constant supervision with ‘AIMON Smart Band’.

Kayla Hong

Asia Journal

▲ AIMON Co., Ltd.

▲ Brand: AIMON Smart Band

▲ CEO : Jin-beom Kim

▲ http://www.aimon.co.kr

▲ info@aimon.co.kr

▲ +82-2-537-3282