——The 11th China Elderly Welfare Product Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was successfully concluded
On December 21, 2023, the award ceremony of the China Elderly Welfare Product Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was successfully held in Shanghai Charity Xintiandi Park. The Welfare Competition has been held for 11 years, co-sponsored by the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. At the ceremony, the gold, silver and bronze awards of the creative design group and the innovative product group were awarded respectively. AsIt is a well-known comprehensive and public welfare pension and welfare property review and promotion platform in ChinaEvery year, a large number of products with novel design, practical and future market value are discovered and discovered through the welfare competition, so as to extend the width of life for thousands of elderly people.
Since the official launch of the call for work in March 2023,A total of 630 products signed up for this year's welfare competition, including 177 in the creative design group and 453 in the innovative product group。The participating products come from 23 provinces, cities and regions in China and 5 overseas countries including Germany, Japan, Sweden, Israel and Belgium. After the professional evaluation of experts from all walks of life in government, industry, academia and research, 50 award-winning products finally stood out, including 42 in the creative design group and 8 in the innovative product group.
On the whole, this year's award-winning products show the characteristics of diversified smart pension solutions, more "human touch" of participating products, and improved technical content of student products. For example, the gold medal winner of the innovative product group of the competition, Beijing Crossover Tower Technology, and their "intelligent care elf" (elderly safety AI pager) comprehensively use voice detection, voiceprint recognition, sound event detection and other technologiesTo a large extent, it solves the pain point that the elderly in different regions cannot be recognized by the pager due to the non-standard pronunciation of Mandarin；It can even automatically trigger a safety call by identifying abnormal environmental sounds such as knocks and collisions, so as to avoid situations where the elderly are unable to call for help under certain conditions. This innovative product enriches the choice of solutions for emergency rescue scenarios such as traditional infrared and millimeter-wave radars, and is full of technology and humanized care.
Another example is the creative design group awards that attract a large number of teachers and students from major professional colleges and universities across the country every year, the creativity and vitality of young people often bring surprises to the public, and this year's creative design group works have been integrated into the warm care of young people at the same time, the technical level has also been greatly improved, such as brain-computer interface, virtual reality, exoskeleton, 3D printing and other scientific research hotspots and cutting-edge technology figures. Such as the design achievement of the gold medal in the creative design group"Smart Swallow Gamified Swallowing Training Equipment for the Elderly".Starting from the relatively niche problem of dysphagia in the elderly, through a large number of sample research, trials and software development, through interactive games + sensor guidance, patients are assisted to complete boring swallowing training independentlyThere is also another gold medal in the creative design category".Design of home health monitoring all-in-one machine".It can be used as a home air quality detector in standby mode.
It is reported that the winning products of the 11th Welfare Competition will be displayed and experienced on-site in the "Welfare Competition Exhibition Area" of the 2024 Shanghai Old Expo, and will receive the "Eight Resources Support" provided by the organizing committee. With the mission of "benefiting the elderly and creating a leading future", the competition has been successfully marketed and even exported overseas with the support of the platform. In the future, the Welfare Competition will continue to be based in Shanghai, facing the whole country and going global, bringing more and better welfare products to the elderly and friends, and drawing a strong stroke for the transformation and upgrading of China's elderly care industry.