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In the smart health connected healthcare market, care for the elderly is one of the most important issues. Among the objects that are intended for the elderly, we discovered Auxivia: a smart health connected glass that tracks the hydration of residents of retirement homes.

How can IoT change the lives of our seniors?

We received Antoine Dupont, co-founder and CEO of Auxivia, who presented us with his product: a smart health connected glass capable of verifying that residents of a retirement health home are getting enough hydration.

At a time when the aging of the population is one of the major challenges of Western societies, he wanted improve the living conditions of the elderly through the automation of retirement homes.

Auxivia wants to develop innovative services with simple objects. The goal is to make the objects usable by anyone, in order to simplify the logistics in these establishments.

Auxivia: a smart health connected glass to fluidize hydration

The first object created for this purpose is a drinking glass adapted to the constraints of this ecosystem. It is a normal glass except that it automates the reporting of information relating to the hydration of its user.

There can be up to one hundred Auxivia glasses in one establishment. The latter are equipped with chips to enable them to recognize residents. Thus, the object always sets off at the nearest terminal.

To put it simply: each room will be equipped with a terminal to which the chip in each glass can connect. Thus, the glasses are not linked to the residents, but to their room. This avoids obvious logistical problems, after each wash for example.

In addition to helping to manage information relating to residents' hydration, the glass has a light signal to remind elderly people to hydrate. This can be very useful, as they unfortunately tend to forget about it.

Regarding its design: it is thinner at the bottom and more open at the top to facilitate handling for people who do not have much strength or range of motion. It also goes in the dishwasher.

Hydration: a key issue in retirement homes

Retirement homes need transparency and traceability, in the same way as hotels, for example. The demands for retirement homes are drastic, as they are no longer dying houses, but real health facilities.

Nowadays, monitoring of residents' hydration is manual or oral. These means are, of course, unreliable and new tools are needed. So the idea is to automate the process.

Auxivia is currently in a period of industrialization, but it is already equipping retirement homes under Review. The first series are currently produced and marketing is scheduled for May 2017.

The product is sold directly to retirement homes so that the elderly can benefit, but there are no direct sales planned at this time. This corresponds to the identity of the device, which aims to be entirely aimed at well-being in a retirement health home.

The company is currently working on other projects aimed at to better connect these establishments in order to make them always less bleak and more modern.

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