• In 2021, because of the coronavirus, the CES in Las Vegas was only held virtual.

    On Wednesday, it opened face-to-face and, among the start-ups present, we find UTech.

  • This Hauts-de-France company will present Clara, a connected assistant dedicated to the elderly.

  • This virtual caregiver, equipped with artificial intelligence and voice recognition, is a kind of improved remote alarm.

The CES in Las Vegas, in the United States, is THE annual meeting not to be missed for companies in the high-tech sector who have an innovation to present. Among the Hauts-de-France companies selected to participate in this 2022 edition is UTech, a subsidiary of Unaide, specializing in personal services. After six years of research and development, the start-up has developed Clara, an intelligent and connected health care aide operating on the same principle as Amazon's Alexa.

Like many entrepreneurial stories, Unaide's was born from the personal experience of its founder, Mathieu Michiels.

“Like many people, I was confronted with the loss of autonomy of relatives and I had to look into the issue of taking charge of dependency at home,” explains the entrepreneur.

In 2015, he decided to set up a company to “undertake new solutions” around this problem.

Unaide began by importing the unknown profession in France of "care manager", a kind of helper for caregivers.

The idea was broadened to "the construction of autonomous home help teams around vulnerable people with the desire to offer comprehensive care for all issues", he continues.

"Reassure the person and hand over to professional helpers"

The innovation that is worth UTech, a subsidiary of Unaide, to participate in CES 2022 is Clara, a vastly improved remote assistance. "To ensure home care as long as possible, we must secure the moments during which the person is alone, without relatives or without professionals," insists Mathieu Michiels. Clara is therefore a whole system whose heart is a hub endowed with artificial intelligence, capable of behavioral and voice analysis and connected by SIM card to a remote assistance platform. “In a risky situation or a fall, the person will cry out or call for help. Clara is able to characterize this cry, to analyze it and then reassure the person and hand over to professional helpers, ”explains the entrepreneur.The hub is supplemented by satellites installed in the living rooms so that contact is never lost.

For UTech, participating in CES 2022 is relevant for several reasons.

If Clara's research and development period is over and the company has entered the industrialization phase, the company must gain visibility.

"It is above all the opportunity to announce the marketing of the device but also to make known the whole ecosystem around Clara which is only the visible part of the iceberg", insists Mathieu Michiels.

And why not attract new investors, since Unaide is preparing a fundraiser, in particular to develop Clara internationally.

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