(Reporter Ye Jing) This year, keywords such as "smart old-age care" and "science and technology to help the elderly" continue to appear frequently in the proposals of the deputies and members of the national two sessions. In the face of the growing demand for old-age services, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Health Commission jointly issued the "Smart Health Pension Industry Development Action Plan (2021-2025)". The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also issued a special document to discuss the aging transformation of smart products.
"Caring for the health of the elderly with technology" has become a key area of attention in the current communication industry. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has pointed out that it supports enterprises with universal service capabilities such as telecom operators to enter the field of smart home care and carry out diversified smart home care services. This is also an important reason why in recent years, operators have continuously made smart pensions more warm through information infrastructure such as 5G.
Smart old-age care has become a hot spot in the "two sessions" proposal
Enjoying quality elderly care services at the doorstep of the home is the desire of most elderly people. At this year's two sessions, the deputies and members performed their duties, focused on topics related to smart old-age care, and actively offered suggestions and suggestions.
Li Jinbo, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Midea Group's Home Air Conditioning Innovation Research Institute, proposed to the two sessions of the National People's Congress in 2022 that the leading enterprises in various industries should take the lead in formulating standards for the adaptation of family aging and establishing a demonstration area for the aging transformation of smart homes; it is recommended to establish and improve the management mechanism of "intelligent service-oriented social organizations" to effectively create a beneficial environment for the intelligent life of the elderly; encourage and support leading enterprises in various industries to take the lead in formulating design standards for the aging of intelligent products. Make more smart products more acceptable and applied by the elderly, and encourage and support enterprises in various industries to pay more attention to and join the aging industry track.
Zheng Jianjiang, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Oaks Group, suggested that intelligent old-age care, talent cultivation and pension-related industrial development should be included in the national economic and social development plan, a specific implementation plan to promote the development of "home-based old-age service stations" should be introduced, and a financial input mechanism should be established that is compatible with the growth of the elderly population and the level of economic and social development.
Yuan Yafei, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Sanpower Group, believes that big data is an important foundation for the development of smart pension models, and he suggested that a unified big data standard for the elderly should be established, and cross-departmental information integration should be coordinated by civil affairs, public security, streets, communities, medical institutions, insurance institutions, etc., and on this basis, a standardized big data platform for old-age services should be built.
With the empowerment of 5G, operators' smart pension has come out of a new way
Smart old-age care has become a hot spot in the proposal of the "two sessions", and the fundamental reason is that the aging process of the mainland has further accelerated. According to the "China Aging Industry Development Report", from 2014 to 2050, the consumption scale of the elderly population in the mainland will grow from 4 trillion yuan to about 106 trillion yuan, and the market will show a blue ocean. It is foreseeable that after the two sessions, smart old-age care will become another outlet in the field of science and technology.
In fact, in recent years, operators have been accelerating the application layout of smart pension family communities, giving full play to the advantages of 5G networks and gigabit broadband, innovating products and services, and jointly building a smart pension industry.
In a pension institution in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China Telecom Tianyi Cloud customized a one-stop solution for it, including database, cloud leased line, cloud host, and cloud monitoring. The high-definition, low-latency 5G cloud monitoring provided by Tianyi Cloud solves the problem of monitoring blind spots in the institution, and can achieve all-weather and dead-end protection of the safety of the elderly.
In Wanzhou, Chongqing, the "5G Smart Elderly Care Service Platform" created by China Mobile has opened a new model of 5G + smart elderly care services. The platform brings together a number of intelligent service products such as one-click intelligent call alarm, motion sensor, water leakage sensor, multi-function sensor, smart mattress, intelligent gateway, smoke alarm, intelligent mattress, smart call watch, etc., to improve the quality of life of the elderly.
In Guiyang, Guizhou, China Unicom and China Railway Sun Valley joined hands to establish the "Unicom Sun Valley 5G Full Perception Intelligent Health Care Laboratory", which fully applies 5G technology to various life scenarios of pension services and jointly creates a "Sun Valley 5G Full Perception Intelligent Health Care Community".
Expanding the smart pension industry needs to be continuously improved
Undoubtedly, the development of new technologies such as 5G, the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence will promote smart old-age care into the fast lane. However, it should also be noted that at present, the smart pension industry is still a new industry, and its cultivation and development still faces many challenges.
Smart health care involves many fields such as information technology industry, medical treatment, health and pension services. Coordination between industries and institutions needs to be further improved.
Industry insiders said that the development direction of smart old-age care should be based on the premise of technology to reduce the cost of old-age care and improve service efficiency. In order to let most of the elderly living alone have a better understanding of the smart pension, operators should keep pace with the times, accurately identify needs and continuously innovate while expanding the smart pension industry. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen industrial collaboration, connect smart home enterprises, establish unified smart device access standards, actively innovate products and services, and jointly empower the smart pension industry.