IBM and British start-up Cera Care plan a six-month pilot to test whether lidar ...
BERLIN - IBM and British start-up Cera Care plan a six-month pilot to test whether lidar laser sensors, used to help self-driving cars “see”, can enable elderly people to stay in their homes for longer - without compromising privacy.
If the pilot is successful, it could potentially open up a new market for lidar just as it falls out of favor with some automakers, including Nissan and Tesla, who have called it expensive and unnecessary. In the pilot, IBM Research UK and Cera Care plan to install lidar sensors in around 10-15 volunteer households in Britain from June, and see whether they can build up a detailed picture of a care client’s daily routine and home environment using IBM’s machine learning software.
“Technology like this can help us solve that gap between demand and supply because it means we can pinpoint when a careworker needs to be in a person’s home,” Maruthappu told Reuters. Nicola Palmarini, IBM’s top research scientist for aging and longevity, says lidar - which doesn’t recognize personal characteristics such as faces, age and gender - provides precise data without people feeling like they are being watched.
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