China News Service, Hangzhou, July 22 (Zhang Yuhuan, Huang Ling, Yi Wei Yanran) Tong Yuchang, 88, has lived alone in Dengxinxiang Community, Tianshui Street, Gongshu District, Hangzhou for more than six years.

The three children often worry about the safe living of the elderly and discuss whether to hire a nanny or send them to a nursing home to support them.

However, the concept of "home" is deeply ingrained for the elderly, and living at home is regarded as their greatest wish.

　　"None of these are necessary. I can take care of myself by myself." Tong Yuchang said to his children, "Plus now I have an'electronic nanny', you can rest assured."

　　According to the seventh national census data, China has 264 million people aged 60 and over, accounting for 18.7% of the total population, of which 191 million people are 65 and over, accounting for 13.5% of the total population.

Under the "silver wave", how to do home care has become a must-answer question that the society faces.

In Gongshu, Hangzhou, the emergence of the "Smart Home Care Environment Assisted AAL System", which is popularly called "electronic nanny", has become one of the local solutions to "aging".

Digital cockpit in the street.

Photo by Zhang Yuhuan

　　In Tong Yuchang's home, sensors are installed on the door walls of the porch, living room, bedroom, and kitchen-this is the "Smart Home Elderly Environment Assistant AAL System" installed on the street for the elderly.

It is composed of a number of smart devices such as water flow sensor, door and window magnetic sensor, smoke alarm, SOS one-key pager, and smart gateway.

　　For example, with the help of a water flow sensor, the "electronic nanny" can grasp the elderly's water consumption for cooking, drinking, and going to the toilet, so as to judge whether the elderly's life is normal.

If the sensor signal is not received for a long time, it is predicted that the elderly will fall, suddenly become ill and cannot move.

　　In the street’s “digital cockpit”, the “Elderly Guardian” section on the digital screen has been synchronized to import early warning information data. If the elderly have not used water for several hours, their early warning information will immediately pop up, address, time, name, Specific information and other contents are displayed in scroll, and the staff on duty will notify the elderly and children or community workers to check the situation at the first time, so as to buy precious time for treatment.

　　Zhu Shuhua, a grid member of the Wickson Lane community, is a kind "little Zhu" in Tong Yuchang's mouth.

She said that there are many elderly people living alone in the community, and even if they visit every day, they are worried about not taking care of them around the clock.

"Since the installation of this system, the old people feel more at ease, and we are more at ease."

　　According to statistics, Tianshui Street is a street with a high degree of aging in the center of Hangzhou. There are more than 12,000 registered elderly people over 60 years old, accounting for 26.5% of the total population.

Living at home is the common wish of these elderly people.

　　"After the system is online, if the elderly have a sudden illness or accidental fall at home, we can know it for the first time." According to Gong Binbin, the person in charge of the Public Service Office of Tianshui Street, the street has already installed free installations for 42 elderly people. "Electronic nanny", plans to expand to 100 households by the end of the year.

　　Embedding smart elderly care in the daily life of the elderly, and solving the people's livelihood through digital empowerment, is the specific reflection of the current "people call me" activities in Hangzhou.

　　The reporter learned from the Reform Office of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee that in May Hangzhou formally deployed the "People Call Me" theme activity, and launched the "People Call Me" digital platform, aiming to focus on high-frequency issues of the people, enterprises, and grassroots. The requirements of “scenarios and small cuts” have promoted the in-depth integration and application of digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence in the fields of government services and people’s livelihood, and formed a batch of major reform achievements in multi-scenarios that people love and are used by grassroots.

　　The emergence of "electronic nanny" is only a profile of the promotion of Hangzhou smart elderly care under the above theme activities.

Since the beginning of this year, Gongshu District of the city has used technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, voice recognition and artificial intelligence to explore the construction of a series of digital elderly care scenarios. The "Smart Home" platform can screen out suitable service agencies to provide door-to-door services through accurate portraits of the elderly. Services: Shangcheng District, Xihu District and other places have launched "family elderly care beds", with the help of intelligent elderly care equipment and information service platforms, so that disabled elderly people can enjoy 24-hour vital signs monitoring, rehabilitation care and other professional institutional care services at home.

　　At present, Hangzhou is accelerating the creation of a "15-minute" home care service circle, which will basically realize the urgent desire of more than 90% of the elderly to "care at home".

Let everyone in the city enjoy a better life under the digital empowerment, and let the elderly share the digital social dividends, and the "city temperature" also emerges from this.

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