Philips is committed to childhood pneumonia

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Every year, nearly a million children die from pneumonia. Faced with this sad fact, UNICEF launched an emergency appeal in 2011 to technology specialists. The goal: to find a solution to better measure the breathing of children with the disease. Philips worked there.

Following a first request in 2011, UNICEF revised its specifications in 2014 by refining the details of its project. On the occasion of the World Pneumonia Day, the Dutch Philips has announced a new smart health smart health connected object called "Children's Automated Respiration monitoring" which should meet the specific needs of children with the disease.

To avoid the risk of death, medical teams accompanying children with pneumonia spend their time visually measuring their number of breaths. Thanks to the solution devised by Philips, the counting of breaths will be done automatically, which will relieve the teams supervising the patients. The belt developed by Philips not only incorporates an accelerometer capable of assessing breathing in the lung, but also a sophisticated algorithm to evaluate movements in more complex situations.

The Dutch intends to release the product for the second quarter of 2016, until he gets the CE mark. Several organizations, including Save The Children, rely heavily on this new sensor.

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