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Avante will exhibit prototypes, products and new technologies for personal autonomy
Publication date: June 2008
The R&D&I Area in Avante – which will be held for the first time from the 5th to the 7th of June in Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Via exhibition centre–, will showcase and contribute to marketing around twenty technological innovations, products and prototypes which improve personal autonomy in the spheres of health, welfare and domestic care. This space will also include the “Know-How Agora” , a forum which will feature various conferences to present these advances and several round tables on other projects and applications of health technologies.
The list of new products includes: a wheelchair control and handling system which is activated by head movement; a PC eye control application; a prototype of reading glasses enabling the hard of hearing to see a film with subtitles; a mobile alarm with locator and communication system, which detects falls; a virtual reality device for rehabilitating upper limbs; telemedicine and clinical monitoring systems; mobile phone teleassistance; a digital leisure media centre which allows users to communicate with welfare services and applications for visually-impaired people to listen to what appears on a mobile phone screen and send text messages using the voice.
Fik Advanlife, , the ONCE Foundation, Hocoma, Informática El Corte Inglés, Iriscom, Telemedic, the Carlos III University of Madrid, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and Vodafone will be participating in this innovation and networking space. These companies and institutions will be able to meet with professionals from the medical, health and welfare sector interested in developing, marketing and implementing these technologies.
On the 5th and 6th of June, the Know-How Agora will provide the setting for four round tables, coordinated by the Tic Salut Foundation on mobile technologies and integration; new technologies for improving personal autonomy; inter-operability as the key for dependency; and medical image, which will be complemented with various sessions to promote highly technological products and services.
Highlights among the conferences will be: Microsoft applications to ensure the remote presence of a second professional in home care and implementing a hospital without papers; the application of RFID technology in health centres; Foundation Vodafone’s presentation of the study “TIC and dependency”; the GYMVR experience of the virtual gymnasium applied to health and robotic technology projects to support people with severe disability.
Barcelona, June 2008
Head of press: Maria Dolors Herranzº
Contact telephoneo: 93 233 25 41
Email address: mdherranz@firabcn.es