In 2016, Senior Researcher Claes Nilsson pitched an idea for a new diabetes app in a competition organised by the Sony Startup Acceleration Program (SSAP). His idea won the competition and was successfully incubated by Sony. 

COVID-19-related deaths in senior care facilities have outpaced those in all other settings, which means that more and more people now choose and, in some cases, have no choice but to care for their elderly at home. In an article published in MedCity News, mSafety’s Arnol Rios considers how the latest innovations in wearable technologies and IoT can help caregivers address the challenges of providing cost-efficient easy-to-manage home-based care.

5 ways you can maintain social distancing using Nimway's technology.

Managing access to residential buildings, offices or other shared workspaces can be stressful and time-consuming. Hours are spent crossing town to meet new tenants and hand over keys, rescuing tenants who’ve lost their keys or waiting for handymen to show up. As a professional in this field, you’ve no doubt wondered how these tasks could be handled more effectively. We invite you to learn more about cloud-based access control - a new, easier way for property owners and facilities managers to control access to their buildings.

Chronic conditions cost the U.S. healthcare system $3.1 trillion dollars in 2019, and the burden of ongoing treatment and compliance impacts patients and providers alike. A recent mSafety study shows that U.S. consumers would be interested in using more remote health monitoring devices. Find out what else we learnt from our survey.

Working in any large building or office complex, many employees have come to accept certain time-wasting activities as the norm – like looking for colleagues, meeting rooms or free workspaces.

But not anymore. Nimway, the smart office solution from Sony, solves all your workplace navigation issues, freeing up time for employees and making your office a better place to work.

What hurdles and decisions await new market entrants?

In an effort to minimise the risk of contamination from COVID-19 and to step in early when it strikes, health tech providers around the world are looking to virtual care solutions such as connected wearables. Suitable for healthy as well as at-risk individuals, they offer unobtrusive remote monitoring to keep people safe without the need for face-to-face contact. But developing such an offer is not simple. Our US expert outlines the challenges for companies looking to enter this increasingly competitive market.

COVID-19 is making health providers think differently about the use of remote monitoring services. It is challenging the idea that such services are only relevant for the elderly or those living with chronic conditions. And it is shining a light on the need for early detection – not only for use in triage by healthcare providers, but also to avoid further spreading of the virus.

Poor security on construction sites causes a whole host of problems - from losses of valuable materials and capital equipment to illegal or underage workers going undetected. The cloud-based access management service, Criotive, provides a discreet and effective way of tackling these problems.  

From Feb 11 – 13, we’ll be exhibiting alongside our lock technology partner Schulte-Schlagbaum SAG at digitalBAU, booth H7.405. Come and discover Criotive – Sony’s cloud-based, over-the-air provisioning service. Integrated with SAG digital locks, Criotive takes access management systems to a whole new level.  

Cloud-based access management systems are peeling back the limitations of traditional lock technologies and opening up for a new type of access control. Instead of the old go/no go dichotomy, they allow for all the options in between.  

The main purpose of the new SafeTrx application with mSafety wearable from Sony is to help locate and rescue water sports enthusiasts who run into trouble at sea. We tested it with groups of professional and amateur volunteers in Norway and The Netherlands to find out just how much salt water and bad weather it can handle.  

Healthcare providers urgently need an effective way to support the elderly and those with chronic health conditions in their home environments. We’ve been examining what it takes to solve this challenge…and solving it! 

Healthcare facilities everywhere struggle with security. At a time when many of the lower paid jobs are done by temporary workers, losses - especially of valuable drugs - are a huge problem. How can administrators keep track of all these people coming and going? Hans Ahnström of ACSS, Stockholm-based distributor for SAG, has found a solution. It’s called Criotive and it’s a new secure provisioning service from Sony.