Kazakhstani Student Develops AI Assistant to Help Protect Elderly People
A school student from Petropavlovsk has developed a robotic assistant designed to help elderly people. Tenth-grader Arthur Steiner created a system that monitors users’ health, detects potentially dangerous situations and alerts their relatives when necessary. His invention has already won first place at a national science project competition, reports 24KZ.
Arthur Steiner, a tenth-grade student at NIS in Petropavlovsk, has been interested in programming for years. He initially created mini-games before deciding to develop something that could benefit society. That is how his AI assistant for elderly people came to life.
Arthur Steiner, 10th-grade student at NIS in Petropavlovsk:
- This is Health Mate. It was originally designed as a smart assistant for elderly people to monitor situations such as falls or changes in heart rate, including possible attacks, and quickly notify their relatives.
The AI assistant was initially conceived and developed as a robot. However, the team later decided to transfer its functions to a mobile application, while smartwatches would be used to monitor users’ health.
Arthur Steiner, 10th-grade student at NIS in Petropavlovsk:
- If someone has a stroke, the watch immediately records changes in their vital signs and first asks the person: ‘Are you okay?’ If it doesn’t receive a response, it starts calling their relatives.
Vadim Meshchanov, Head of the NIS Engineering Lab:
- It helps families whose grandparents do not want to live in a nursing home, but whose children cannot always be there for them. This project addresses that problem. For example, it detects when someone has fallen. There is also a feature that reminds people to take their medication and allows them to have conversations with the assistant powered by a neural network. Water and gas leak sensors are installed as well. In case of an emergency, SMS notifications are automatically sent to relatives and emergency services.
Emergency medical specialists have already praised the development. They believe the AI assistant could be useful not only for elderly people but also for patients with chronic conditions.
Yury Belonog, Director of the Regional Emergency Medical Care Centre:
- The potential applications of this robot could be expanded even further. It could also be used for 24-hour blood pressure monitoring. There is already a demand for this service, with patients often having to wait in functional diagnostics departments. With this device, monitoring could be carried out without any difficulty. I also suggested that they consider recording electrocardiograms in more detail. That would be excellent.
Arthur Steiner’s AI assistant won first place at the national science project competition. The student is now working on monetising the invention and registering its trademark. The next step is to bring it to digital platforms.
Authors: Nurgul Akhmetova, Kuanysh Kazbekov
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