smart living technologies for theageing population- case finland · 2018-10-29 · (vtt group...

Smart livingtechnologiesfor the ageingpopulation -case Finland

26.10.2018 VTT – beyond the obvious 1

Kyoto Smart City Expo 20184-5 October 2018

Jussi RöntyVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd

Content1. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd2. Short overview of VTT’s activities on Smart Cities3. Ageing population in Finland - facts and figures4. Smart digital technologies for senior citizens5. Smart nature-based solution for better living6. Conclusions


Owned by

Ministry of Economic Affairs and

Employment

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd

Established in

1942

258M€Net turnover and other operating income (VTT Group 2017)

2,368Total of personnel

(VTT Group 31.12.2017)

36%from abroad (VTT Group

2017)

27%Doctorates and

Licentiates (VTT Group

2017)

VTT is one of the leading research, development and innovation organizations in Europe. We help our customers and society to grow and renew through applied research. The business sector and the entire society get the best benefit from VTT when we solve challenges that require world-class know-how together and translate them into business opportunities.

Our vision A brighter future is created through science-based innovations.

Our mission Customers and society grow and renew through applied research.

Strategy Impact through scientific and technological excellence.


VTT is a key actor in the Finnish innovation ecosystem


• Innovation partner to companies

• Finland’s biggest single actor in EU’s framework programmes

• Participates in ca. 30 national technology programmes

• Strategic partnerships with main universities

VTT’s business areas


SMART INDUSTRY

AND ENERGY SYSTEMS

SOLUTIONS FOR NATURAL

RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

• Sensing and integration

• Connectivity• Data-driven solutions• National Metrology

Institute VTT MIKES• Micronova

manufacturing services

• Industrial biotechnology and food solutions

• Biomass processing and products

• Sustainable energy and chemical technologies

• Lifecycle solutions• Nuclear safety• Smart energy and transport

solutions• Digital engineering• Business innovation

foresight

KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

VTT’s R&D infrastructure –an essential part of the national research infrastructure


Growth with sustainable innovations

Good lifeImproved quality of life and work

Industrial renewalInnovationsempowering

industry

Resource sufficiency

Prosperity from resource wisdom

Climate actionClean energyfor the future

Opportunities in the world of huge challenges

Safety andsecurity

Resiliency in turbulent world

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Sustainable and low-carbon Smart Cities

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VTTCITYTUNE®

ENERGY

BUILTENVIRONMENT

WATER

INFRA

MOBILITY GOVERNANCE

KPI

Data collection, management and reporting activities can be automated and centralized in one easily accessible place which has proved to result in significant savings through avoided double work and manual work.

VTT CityTune® KPI– the KPIs

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The dashboard visualisations use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that have been developed and validated together with 50 cities and other stakeholders.

KPIsKPIs KPIsKPIs

PEOPLE PLANET PROSPERITY GOVERNANCE PROPAGATION

KPIs

Smart CitiesEasy Living and wellbeing in regenerative cities

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Something to chew on: You cannot glue smartness

on top of a city; it has to grow organically from the

inside out and from the bottom to the top. How to

nurture and guide this growth?

• Platform business models can be adopted to city

operations, breaking from the traditional role of cities

as service providers. Whole cities can become

platforms for urban innovation, promoting the

sustainability and growth of innovative companies by

creating markets and first references for promising new

solutions.

• Company business models must also evolve towards

more collaborative and citizen-value-driven models.

The agile co-development of solutions with citizens

through pilots is key to success in the new Smart City.

• Technology trends and sustainability challenges are

converging in cities of all sizes, forcing leaders to sit up together

with citizens and rethink the future. Their challenge is to

mastermind a transformation that optimizes the use of current

infrastructure while enabling the new possibilities technology

brings. All this while ensuring quality of life in cities with only

limited resources to spare.

• Everything must be localized and designed with safety, security, sustainability and resiliency at the forefront.

Success comes through an integrated and collaborative

approach to planning smart buildings, infrastructure, energy systems, mobility solutions and other city systems holistically.

• It’s tempting to think technology would offer a panacea, but

today’s complex urban challenges can no longer be solved by

one company, or one technology, but rather with a combination

of them – working together with urban ecosystem stakeholders,

at cross-sector tables, while putting citizens at the center.

SMART BUILT ENVIRONMENT

DESIGN FOR FUTURE

ENERGY INTELLIGENCE

Technology

IntelligentBusiness & Societal

Ecosystems

From Innovation to Intelligent Business & Societal Ecosystems

Environment

Soc

iety

Econom

y

Smart Governance

Smart People

Connected Services

Value-driven Business

Natural Environment Built Environment

Communication

Coexistence

Collaboration

Source: VTT, Kazi (2013), Final Report, TUB-IT Project: Towards Urban Europe – Innovations and Technologies


Age structure of population

According to Statistics Finland's statistics on population structure, the official total population of Finland at the end of 2017 was 5,513,130. In the course of 2017, Finland’s population grew by 9,833 persons. Population growth was smallest since 2000.


Total fertility rate at an all-time low

The total fertility rate was at an all-time low in 2017, i.e. 1.49 children per woman. The rate was second lowest in 1973, when it was 1.50 children per woman. In the previous year 2016, the total fertility rate was 1.57. Since 1969, the total fertility rate has been below the replacement level, which is 2.1 children per woman.


Development of age structure

At the end of 2017, there were 890,424 persons aged under 15 in Finland and 3,443,388 persons aged between 15 and 64. Persons aged 65 or over numbered 1,179,318 at the end of 2017.


Life expectancy

According to Statistics Finland, the life expectancy at birth was 78.4 years for boys and 84.1 years for girls in 2016.

Proportion of 75 years old or older population in services


(~95)

Policy focus on promoting:§ independent living, § functional ability,

and§ active participation.

Gerontechnology (Finnish perspective)


vAmbient intelligence and embedded technologies for seniors

§ Home automation for independent living

ü Home security systems

ü Safety systems and alarms

ü Motion/movement sensors

ü Remote monitoring

ü Indoor Air Quality control

ü Smart lighting

ü Safebed, smart sofa

ü Domestic/service robots

(cleaning, cooking, bathing)

§ Health & well-being for functional ability

ü Safety bracelets

ü Activity wristbands

ü Personal health monitors

ü Smart medicine dispencers

ü Excercise and memory

games

ü Smart rollator

ü Daily medical testing (blood

sugar / - pressure etc.)

§ Communication – ICT for active participation

ü Family caregiving and contact

ü Relationships

ü Entertainment and news

ü Social robots

ü Video chat, easy-to-use apps

ü Fighting loneliness and

depression

ü Remote medical consultation

(”telehealth” or ”telemedicine”)


Project reference:BeWell HappyAmbient detection and adaptation to emerging cognitive disorders

Smart tracking systems were placed in senior citizens’ homes to create an intelligent ambient environment gathering information about how well senior citizens were performing their usual activities and revealed possible changes in their daily habits. This information enables any variations in their activity levels to be discovered and visualized.

Project reference:METESE: Meaningful Technology for Seniors


METESE project (2015-2018) focused on understanding the possibilities and challenges of integrating ICT and robotics technology in elderly care in Finland and in Japan, and learning from the other culture in order to advance utilizing the technology for personal or societal benefit in the context of ageing population.

The aim was to support active aging with technologies that bring safety, comfort and joy to the elderly, and enable living at home as long as possible.

Paro the therapy robot

Barriers to integrate technologies in care facilities (Watanabe, Hyytinen, & Määttä, 2017).

Reference

VTT Human Thermal Model (HTM)§ Ensuring thermal comfort for ageing citizens

§ Due to individual body composition, there are significant differences in optimal temperature levels between occupants.

§ After 30 years of age, muscle mass will statistically decrease by 1 % in a year, metabolic rate of elderly people will be reduced - meaning that elderly people prefer higher temperature levels than young adults.

§ That is why true thermal expectations of occupants need to be considered when designing, dimensioning, and operating buildings for ageing citizens.

HTM anatomy model

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Reference


Independent Living => Smart Rollator use caseNeeds and challenges of the elderly§ Mobility§ Staying fit§ Keeping in contact§ Mental activity§ Technological aids

§ Rollator equipped with sensors§ Communication app§ Monitoring app for

• Seniors• Relatives/close-ones• Care providers• Health care providers

Opportunities§ Daily rhythm§ Number of steps§ Walk distances, durations

and differences in altitude§ Walks against targets§ Pressing power (index)§ Communication app§ Weather§ Home/Outside (BTLE)§ Motoric state?§ Alarm for falling down?

Reference

VTT’s digital health technologies• Printed intelligence e.g. for medical self diagnostics

• Connected wearable technologies (smart clothes etc.)

• Artificial intelligence in healthcare and wellbeing• Example: Artificial intelligence reveals cardiac patients’ risk of

complications. The objective is to recognize serious difficult-to-predict complications as early as possible using the latest AI and machine learning methods for home care patients.


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Decision support for Neurodegenerative Diseases (dementias, Parkinson etc.)

Challenge

How to support healthcare professionals to make more informed and objective decisions?

How to detect dementia risk earlier?

How to differentiate the diagnose between similar diseases?

Solution

Benefits

REFERENCE

• preventive care and quality of life• fast data-based decisions

AI solution for faster medical image analysis and to detect risk in earlier phase. Approach that fulfil the needs of clinical practice.

Early detection of cognitive

problems

Diagnostics and decision-making

support for doctors

Realitycheck…


”When a man lives old enough, and retires from work, he is free to do what ever he wants”

- Tove Jansson


Adapting new technology is still a big challenge for most seniors in Finland, and support is needed…

Technology might beavailable for seniorsbut not actually in everyday use…

…for many it is a personal choice.


Human-to-human interaction, assistance and contact not to be forgotten


A vast majority of active seniors in Finland prefer to live at home as long as possible…


…preferablyclose to nature…


…in a log cabinnearby forestsand a lake…


Rantasalmi Log Homes, Hirsitalo Rauha 163

…or in a modern version with someluxury elements… now this is smart!

Saaren Hirsitalot


But unfortunately noteveryone can live in their own home…

That’s why the livingenvironment at seniorcare homes should bejust as comfortableand healthy.

Pudasjärvi Hirsikartano, service home for the elderly, made of logs.Villa Luoto, service home for the elderly, by Siklatilat Oy.

Wood is naturally smart material§ According to a number of studies*, wood is a

restorative material, proven to have benefits to people’s health and wellbeing.

1. Wood as surface material has an effect to theindoor environment quality and thus to health and wellbeing of people living in that space.

2. Wood releases stress, lowers heartrate, and improves productivity and perceptual abilities.

3. Wood has natural antibacterial properties.


* E.g. Nyrud & Bringslimark (2010), Anme et al. (2012), Tyrväinen et al. (2014), Augustin & Fell (2015), Burnard and Kutnar (2016) Bysheim, Nyrud & Strobel (2017).


Wood is warm and comfortable material for homesand service facilities – used even in hospitals

Improves air qualityby moderating

humidity

Improves emotionalstate and

self-expression

Lowers bloodpressure, heart rate

and stress levels

Has natural antibacterial

properties

Long term store ofcarbon, helping to

fight climate change

Certification ensurestimber comes fromsustainable sources

Our vision: smart, safe, healthy and comfortable living environment

§ Monitoring by collecting data – predictive cloud based data analysis to produce valuable information for decision making and control.

§ Smart management and control systems optimizing local consumption without compromising building performance and IEQ.

Ø Overall quality and performance verification of buildings and living spaces


Combination of modern digital technology and natural smartness

Wood has hygrothermal properties:humidity and temperature buffer, balancing indoor air quality.Wood also has natural antibacterial properties.

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The future brings us wooden schools, kindergartens, hospitals, moreeconomical building techniques, comfortable and healthy houses, butalso stunning new skyscrapers with wow-effects...

The potential of wood in future cities”World’s oldest, yet the most modern building material”

W350. Source: Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.

CLT school in Kuhmo, Finland. Source: www.puuinfo.fi

Photo: Miska Puumala / MT.

Prefabricated module. Source: www.puuinfo.fi

Conclusions§ Population is ageing worldwide; it is a global challenge that we have to face

with a young mindset and new clever solutions.§ The overload of human-technology relation, the gadgets we use in our work

and free time, is increasing stress when it should make life easier.üTechnology is just an enabler – it should make life easier, not more complex.

§ Urbanization and strained infrastructures pose pressures towards new design of our living environment – need for innovative digital and nature-based products and services.

§ Finland has the ability to answer these challenges because of well-educated population, high trust level in society and a number of growth-oriented companies. International collaboration is also needed.

§ Human-to-human interaction and natural smartness not to be forgotten!


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