IFA iNternational 2019 DAY 4 Edition

BROUGHT
TO YOU BY
NEWS
MEDISANA
DEBUTS
CONNECTED
DEVICES
Chris Mansfield
Head of Product at TwentyBN
Medisana is presenting new
connected products at IFA,
providing an interface between
medicine and modern lifestyles.
Marco Getz, Managing Director,
Medisana Gmbh, says that in the
field of personal health monitoring,
the devices are aimed at improving
mobility, flexibility, independence
and safety.
“Medisana is once again underlining
its expertise in the field of smart,
mobile product innovations,” he
said at the company’s IFA press
conference. “Our ‘connect’ segment
is still a major focus for our product
innovations. This is where we see
the ongoing development of our
expertise.”
Medisana’s Home Care Robot is
designed to be a digital companion
for everyday life. With a voice
command function, it is primarily
intended to give older people
uncomplicated access to digital
services, provide support and
help combat the social isolation
many can suffer. It provides
communication and entertainment,
and, thanks to its emergency
functions, it also ensures greater
safety for users and their relatives.
Marco Getz
Managing Director, Medisana
When integrated with the
Medisana VitaDock+ app it
serves as a platform for daily
health monitoring, reminding
users, for example, to take daily
measurements and, in conjunction
with Medisana’s connect devices,
providing ongoing monitoring of
vital signs such as blood pressure,
blood sugar, weight, activity,
temperature and blood oxygen.
Also launching are the new BS 500
connect wireless body analysis
scales and two new smartwatches:
the BPW 100 connect blood
pressure monitor and the
GlucoWatch connect for measuring
blood sugar.
Mr Getz added: “Every time users
weigh themselves, the scales
also measure heart rate because
the human heart rate in resting
position, the so-called resting
heart rate, gives an indication of a
person’s general fitness level”
Hall 6.1
Stand 103
MILLIE:
A CRITICAL
STEP FOR
TWENTYBN
Twenty Billion Neurons (twentybn)
says it’s building the next
generation of visually enabled and
interactive virtual assistants.
In a presentation at the IFA NEXT
Innovation Engine Programme,
in Hall 26 at IFA, Chris Mansfield,
Head of Product at twentybn,
showcased Millie, billed as the
world’s first AI avatar, a life-sized
intelligent assistant who can see,
understand and interact with users.
Mansfield said that at the core of
Millie’s intelligence is the company’s
human-behaviour-understanding
technology, powered by twentybn’s
global video platform that collects
high-quality, annotated data for
deep learning.
Established four years ago,
twentybn collects and labels up to
50,000 video clips a day and has
amassed more than three million
videos to-date.
“Mille is the world’s first contextaware
AI avatar with in-house
vision and speech models that
respect people’s privacy,” Mansfield
said. “Mille is the critical step in our
vision to bring AI avatars into the
home.”
The first area that twentybn is
targeting for its avatars is fitness.
“Powered by our AI’s behavioural
understanding, Millie Fit gives
dynamic, guided workouts, instant
form-feedback on complex
movements, repetition counting
and effort-based scoring,”
Mansfield said.
During his presentation, Mansfield
played a video, which started with a
woman receiving an SMS message
from Mille that mentioned a Pilates
session that would start in five
minutes. The woman collects an
excercise mat, before being put
through her paces with help and
encouragement from Mille.
In the video, Millie said: “Lift your
right leg to the side, try to keep that
leg straight; on to lunges – don’t
quit now – three, two, one; put a
soft bend in your knees and fall
forward, don’t strain your neck too
much it should still be in line with
your spine”
Hall 26
Stand 114
www.ifa-international.org IFA International • Monday 9 September 2019
7