{"id":492,"date":"2020-05-31T23:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T18:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/?p=492"},"modified":"2020-05-31T23:51:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T18:21:38","slug":"ai-powered-wristbands-to-monitor-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/2020\/05\/31\/ai-powered-wristbands-to-monitor-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-powered Wristbands: To Monitor COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Asia Pacific has named India third in terms of AI readiness. But how is the <strong>Indian healthcare system<\/strong> deploying AI during these hard times?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID-19 is at full pace, and to keep track of thousands of infected patients is getting hard. For this, the government is looking to launch a wristband, which will be linked to <strong>Aarogya Setu<\/strong>, the contact tracing app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Broadcast Engineering Consultants India (BECIL)<\/strong>, the government&#8217;s technology procurement body, plans to pitch the wearable device&#8217;s design to AIIMS and other government hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BECIL will work with undisclosed <strong>start-ups<\/strong> based in Bangalore and. Gurugram for the appearance of the wristband. The product will cost about INR 2,200 per piece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Prime Minister Office<\/strong> has set up a committee to incorporate AI and utilize ML in the Aarogya Setu app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With AI-powered wearable devices, hospitals will be able to <strong>monitor <\/strong>the everyday behavior of the infected person. The tool is being designed to identify close, frequent, and occasional contacts efficiently, and gather locational data, too. If someone tries to remove the wristband,  the health authorities will get a<strong> real-time alert<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government intends to develop a <strong>one-stop solution<\/strong> by incorporating AI and ML to support the Indian healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#AIMonks #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BECIL #AarogyaSetu #COVID19 #Coronavirus #ML #MachineLearning #AsiaPacific #HealthcareSystem #Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> Asia Pacific has named India third in terms of AI readiness. But how is the Indian healthcare system deploying AI during these hard times? COVID-19 is at full pace, and to keep track of thousands of infected patients is getting hard. For this, the government is looking to launch a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[419,35,25,422,418,87,420,102,423,32,33,22],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","tag-aarogya-setu","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-asia-pacific","tag-becil","tag-coronavirus","tag-cov","tag-healthcare","tag-healthcare-system","tag-machine-learning","tag-ml","tag-technology"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640.png",640,453,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640.png",640,453,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640.png",640,453,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640-300x212.png",300,212,true],"large":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640.png",640,453,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640.png",640,453,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640.png",640,453,false],"hestia-blog":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/running-watch-1329309_640-360x240.png",360,240,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"AI Bytes","author_link":"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/author\/aibytes_kashika\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/category\/daily-bytes\/innovation\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Innovation<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Reading Time: &lt; 1 minutes Asia Pacific has named India third in terms of AI readiness. 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