NHN said on the 10th that it signed a business agreement with its senior care subsidiary NHN Waplat and Digital Healthcare corporation HealthMax to build an "AI smart home care" system.
The three companies will work to build the platform needed for the "AI smart home care" area of the "AX-Sprint" project being promoted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The core is to support independent living around the clock in a daily life–integrated manner by combining various smart devices and artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the home environment where care recipients actually live.
NHN will support a high-performance AI infrastructure environment capable of processing vast health and care data, and NHN Waplat plans to provide the "Waplat AI life assistant" service. The "Waplat AI life assistant" is a care platform based on smartphones that can comprehensively manage seniors' safety, wellbeing checks, health, daily life, and emotions. HealthMax supports Digital Healthcare devices that can measure more than 34 types of health and lifestyle data, including blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol, and "Biogram," an AI-based health analysis and coaching service.
Hwang Sun-young, director of NHN's Legal and Policy Group and CEO of NHN Waplat, said, "We will continue to collaborate with corporations that have specialized capabilities to derive a care model that aligns with the policy direction of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and we will work to build Korea's care infrastructure in response to a super-aged society."