How Far Is Artificial Intelligence Pension from Us

电子科技大学 格拉斯哥学院 2017级 张芯豪
The rise of artificial intelligence has penetrated into care of the old. China is facing some of the most challenging problems which are the serious aging problem, pension difficulties and empty nesters. In addition to the convenience of life and action, the emotional needs are more prominent for old people. Artificial intelligence pension has been paid more and more attention and expectations.

For example, the biggest challenge of Japan’s care industry is the “2025 problem”. That is to say, the first batch of babies who are born after the world war Ⅱ all entered the later stage of old age, and 2025 is a peak of Japan’s aging society as a result of the decreasing of the total population and the number of newborns. Another problem brought by the decreasing of population is the shortage of labor force, which is reflected in the insufficient number of care workers in the care industry. They are unable to take care of such large number of elderly people. So in order to solve the problem of insufficient caregivers, the latest reform especially emphasizes the relationship between care and science and technology, how to bring AI into the care work and how to transform AI into an effective assistant in the work of providing for the aged.

Different measures to solve the aging problem

At present, artificial intelligence pension is no longer a viable issue, but the future trend of the pension industry. Utilizing modern science and technology to improve the service for the aged has become the future direction of this industry.
With the development of artificial intelligence, communication technology, Internet of Things, cloud computing technology, and other technologies, intelligent pension has become a new development direction and inevitable trend of the care industry.In February 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other three ministries jointly issued the “Action Plan for the Development of Intelligent and Healthy Old-age Industry (2017-2020)”. The plan is to build 100 leading enterprises in 100 demonstration bases and promote intelligent old-age service. Under the policy impetus, some pension enterprises take the lead in layout, using the Internet, Internet of Things, big data and other information technology means to innovate the healthy pension service mode, and intelligent pension has also begun to enter the stage of development.

(1)Intelligent introduction of big data and intelligent service for the aged

For the elderly, maintaining a healthy body and ensuring good physical function every day are the core elements of pension services. Using cloud service+ big data + Internet of things technology, through a variety of simple sensors, the physical conditions of the elderly, such as blood pressure, heartbeat, pulse, breathing, movement, sleep and other data can be automatically recorded and analyzed, and then transmitted to doctors or family members. In order to ensure timely understanding of the physical condition of the elderly, and to provide the most appropriate and timely medical assistance. Compared with the old management method, which relies on manual daily and weekly testing, recording and feedback, it can be said that it is very, very scientific.
On the other hand, for the medical services needed by the elderly, doctors can synthesize the most suitable medical programs and medicines for the elderly according to the data on sensors and clouds. According to the patient’s personal habits, mentality and hobbies, giving the most personalized medical plan is probably the future direction of the development of the medical industry.
This is the powerful advantage of artificial intelligence and intelligent application of big data, which further promotes the intelligent process of pension services.

(2)Intelligent Wearing Helps Intelligent Old-age Care

At present, with the rapid development of information science and technology, intelligent wearing equipment has entered the public life, and also provides effective technical channels and related services for the elderly service. Compared with existing mobile terminals, including smartphones and tablets, wearable devices focus more on: 1) the convenience of operation, further release of hands; 2) intellectualization, emphasizing the perception of various environments, platform data processing capabilities; 3) low power consumption and persistence; 4) different scenarios have different corresponding devices; For example, products such as wrist rings and smart watches can be used to track health and sports data.
For the elderly, with the growth of age and the improvement of living standards, the concern for their own health is increasing; for most children, in the current competitive social environment, can not afford more time to accompany the elderly, the safety and health of the elderly become the concern of most children.
With the development of science and technology, smart wearable devices, such as bracelets and smart watches, have begun to enter people’s life. The portable, simple, friendly, interactive and applicable functions of wearable devices have inspired people to use wearable technology to solve the health problems of the elderly and their children.

Wearable technology and equipment can provide rich health care and care functions for the elderly, including health tracking (monitoring exercise, calorie consumption, heart rate, body temperature, sleep and other simple health data), location tracking (anti-loss function, let children grasp the geographic location information of the elderly), patients. Monitoring (mainly used to help patients with chronic diseases to monitor blood pressure, blood sugar, EEG and other data), reminder function (such as medication reminder), physical therapy rehabilitation, etc., with the development of technology in the future, wearable technology can be combined with augmented reality, virtual reality technology, etc., to provide more intelligent services.

(3)Intelligent Service Robot, Information Intelligent Service

With the continuous progress of artificial intelligence technology, intelligent service terminals based on intelligent service robots provide strong technical support.
Nowadays, artificial intelligence service robots have a great advantage in the field of pension. Intelligent robots are more suited to the needs of home-based pension in terms of service functions. In addition to SOS remote intelligent call, intelligent care, family interaction and dynamic monitoring of health data, they also have strong self-learning ability, and help entertainment functions, which meet the needs of cultural pension and home-based pension.
Intelligent service robots have realized autonomous walking, obstacle avoidance, roaming and charging; they have made great innovations in service modes, with front-end supply side accessing service information such as government, social forces and market; information integration end integrating basic information such as the elderly, pension service institutions, etc., and demand terminal docking the needs of the elderly for the elderly. Provide information service with health management as its characteristic.
The platform and robots will build a comprehensive service platform for the aged with the help of the service chain of “Internet + intelligent robot + pension”. On the basis of promoting intelligent pension, they will boldly reform and innovate, actively explore various modes of intelligent pension, and continuously expand the beneficiaries of intelligent home-based pension.
Enabled by artificial intelligence technology, the intelligent pension service mode “system + service + elderly + terminal” is based on pension institutions, supported by health big data service platform, linked by intelligent robots, integrating social resources, and striving to build “human-computer interaction, home care, health service, health file management”. Intelligent pension service network centered can provide effective support for artificial intelligence pension scene landing.

(4)Development Trend of AI Old-age Intelligence

According to relevant reports, under the push of artificial intelligence technology, Wi-Fi can monitor sleep, mattress can also monitor heart rate, UAV can monitor gas leakage… These cool black technologies, which are closely related to the health and life of residents, have taken shape.
A Wi-Fi transmitting device and a Wi-Fi receiving device, whether sitting or lying, can real-time monitor respiratory frequency, track sleep status, and find abnormal conditions such as respiratory arrest and respiratory disorder. In addition, it can also monitor falls, detect intrusions and alarm.
It is understood that such a series of wireless sensing products have appeared in China, and have been preliminarily applied. Based on the original wireless sensing theory and technology, we use the ordinary Wi-Fi and 4G/5G signals everywhere in the indoor environment to accurately perceive people and objects in the environment. To achieve human breathing detection, fall detection, intrusion detection, behavior recognition and long-term monitoring of daily life.

As the age increases, the balance ability of the elderly gradually decreases and the risk of falling increases. Especially in the late night, even the best nurses are negligent, unable to ensure the night needs of every elderly person.
By means of artificial intelligence technology, behavior recognition can be carried out in the first time, and the danger of falling can be found, so that medical staff can take corresponding measures in the shortest time. In addition, in the medical sense, long-term sleep monitoring can detect early signs of respiratory and cardiac diseases for early intervention. Such technology can be applied to home care and institutional care, helping families and nurses to prevent and deal with all kinds of emergencies.
Artificial intelligence technology, as a new and intelligent technology means, plays an important role in intelligent application. It is believed that the future pension service will usher in greater development space through intelligent face recognition system, Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, virtual reality and other technologies.

Whether we can care about spiritual needs besides intelligent nursing

Robot pension has gradually changed from concept to reality, and began to provide physical care and medical services for the elderly, which is undoubtedly a gratifying progress of science and technology into life.
Faced with the increasingly large number of empty nesters and elderly living alone, the way of home care, the disparity between community care and institutional care (home care accounts for more than 90%) and the serious old-age problems such as the slow emergency response of children going out for the elderly, it is very necessary for AI to enter the old-age industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the service quality and ability of home-based pension service by creating a visualization platform for home-based pension, using large data to help pension institutions improve efficiency and extend the depth and breadth of service.
However, people are emotional animals, the elderly actually need more communication with others especially their children, and the most direct and emotional way of communication is the most efficient. At present, under the technological conditions, robots are more from the material needs to meet the life of the elderly and provide help in life. They can not have the seven passions and six desires like human beings, and can not really communicate with the elderly. Therefore, they can not bridge the gap of the heart that the elderly factor women get when they are not around. Whether intelligent robots can further develop and evolve into emotional interaction with humans in the future is unknown, but even if there are intelligent and capable robots around to listen to instructions, the older people would rather like to see the lively faces of their children.