NHN said on the 6th that it formed a consortium to participate in the Ministry of Health and Welfare's "artificial intelligence (AI) smart home care" project in partnership with its senior care subsidiary NHN Waplat and Kakao Healthcare. The three companies also signed a business agreement to build the service.
This agreement was pursued to participate in the "AI smart home care" task within the AX-Sprint project, for which the Ministry of Health and Welfare released a call for proposals on the 26th of last month. The AX-Sprint project is a government program that supports the rapid commercialization of application products using AI technology.
In particular, the goal of the "AI smart home care" task is to build a smart home care platform that supports independent living around the clock in a life-embedded manner by combining various smart devices and AI technology in the home environments where care recipients actually live.
Through this agreement, the three companies plan to build an AI smart home care system that realizes "aging in place," or healthy aging in the place where one has lived, rather than in a care facility. Based on smartphones, they will collect safety, well-being, and daily-life data, and use digital health devices such as continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and hourly blood pressure monitors (BP) to obtain real-time health indicators. The collected data will be stored in the AI infrastructure, then integrated and analyzed to implement care services.
NHN will support an AI infrastructure environment that can stably process and analyze large-scale data. NHN Waplat will be responsible for building and operating the actual service based on the "Waplat AI life assistant" platform.
Hwang Sun-young, director of NHN's Legal and Policy Group and CEO of NHN Waplat, said, "This agreement is a starting point to realize an 'AI smart home integrated care model' by linking AI infrastructure, care services, and health management services on a single platform," adding, "To successfully build a local government and public standard operating model that aligns with the Ministry of Health and Welfare's policy direction, we will expand the consortium with corporations that have specialized capabilities and proceed step by step with public demonstration projects going forward."