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To celebrate the five years of the OSO-AI company, its members organized an evening at the Marina du Château in Brest (Finistere) Thursday February 15, 2024. Far from only inviting start-up employees, many members of the Brest University Hospital alternate between tables filled with petit Fours. This mix of professionals is no accident. Since 2018, OSO-AI has been working in collaboration with the Brest University Hospital in order to develop its “augmented ears” there. “This device will be present in the future nursing home, which will come to life at the end of 2029. It's going to be a real revolution for caregivers and patients”...
It will be a real revolution for caregivers and patients, enthuses Béatrice Sorrieul, senior health manager at the Brest University Hospital. Artificial intelligence at the service of health. The initial idea behind “The Augmented Ear” focused on identifying falls. “As parents, we know, just by hearing a noise in the house, that our child may have fallen. With augmented ears, we wanted to push the project further by working on the sounds made by fragile people in distress situations,” explains Philippe Roguedas, CEO of OSO-AI.
In the future nursing home, the tool will thus make it possible to detect abnormal sounds that come from the patients' room. “A box is stuck in a patient's room. The caregivers are equipped with a telephone that sends them an SMS with the room number and a ten-second extract of the captured sound that will allow them to analyze the situation”, specifies Philippe Roguedas. The augmented ear will not be the only innovation in this future nursing home. A mix of habitats will be available for the 400 residents such as single-storey houses with seven bedrooms. “Nursing homes are institutions today, points out Béatrice Sorrieul, “but patients need to feel at home there. The nursing home of the future will allow us to return to common sense.”
Marie RABIN, journalist from West France.