OSO-AI, a deeptech company that pioneered Ambient Intelligence (Aml) at the service of vulnerable people and healthcare workers, announces today the launch of a strategic multi-year partnership with AP-HP and Sorbonne University for the implementation of its Augmented Ear for Caregivers and the development of new functionalities, particularly in the field of pneumology.
OSO RESP aims to launch a large-scale R&D program on the market, with a brand new secondary prevention service. This partnership, lasting 2 years, is supported by Bpifrance. It is the result of a first test phase of 100 days of care, conducted in 2021, between OSO-AI and the R3S department of the Pitié Salpetrière AP-HP hospital (Respiration, Resuscitation, Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation, Sleep/Pity).
The OSO-RESP project is thus based on the unique technology for studying sounds by AI, developed by OSO-AI and the medical expertise of a renowned hospital service. This partnership thus aims to develop a database that is unique in the world, on pneumological medical grade sounds. It also aims to improve the prevention of home emergencies, in order to relieve hospital services, as well as vulnerable people, and avoid unnecessary hospital stays.
Co-developed since 2018 in real conditions with establishments from the Red Cross, the Brest University Hospital and Vyv3 Handicap, the Augmented Ear for Caregivers is a unique technology in the world for analysing sounds and noises. Non-intrusive and operational 24 hours a day, this solution ofAmbient Intelligence consists of a box equipped with microphones and sensors coupled with algorithms that analyze and detect in real time all suspicious sounds and noises in the environment of vulnerable populations (elderly people, people with disabilities). This box is connected to an application on a smartphone or tablet, made available to healthcare personnel, who can thus quickly identify suspicious or abnormal situations requiring intervention.
The Augmented Ear for Caregivers was trained on several million sound samples, qualified by the OSO-AI data labeller teams. Thus, the algorithms of this augmented ear are able to accurately analyze more than 150 classes of sounds and noises such as falls, shocks, breathing, snoring, vomiting, footsteps, and of course the words of vulnerable people, and of course the words of vulnerable people as well as any intrusion by a third party. This technology aims to facilitate and alleviate the work of caregivers who are responsible for vulnerable people, in specialized institutions, in strict compliance with the confidentiality of the patient-caregiver relationship.
This technology already equips more than a thousand rooms in France. The quality and precision of the results obtained make it possible to deploy it for the home follow-up of chronically ill patients as well as the elderly. It is on this objective that OSO-AI, AP-HP and Sorbonne University will focus their efforts with the analysis of human breathing as a central theme.
The analysis of the breathing of the fragile person plays a central role. Respiratory problems “make noise” affect a large part of the fragile population (around 30% of hospitalizations in nursing homes).
The way you breathe also illustrates the general condition of the person. This partnership with the AP-HP does not only target acute or chronic respiratory conditions, but also other pathologies likely to modify breathing (cardiac decompensations in particular).
The OSO RESP project thus aims to build a unique medical grade database of respiratory sounds in the world, whether they come from patients or from care and surveillance devices deployed to them. The AI system will be trained to identify these sounds reliably, in order to create several alerts for medical personnel. This tool can be deployed at home, in nursing homes as well as in disabled establishments, where it will then aim at the early detection of certain abuses, for better efficiency of care. It will also be installed in a hospital environment, where it can contribute to optimizing the length of stay.
Professor Thomas Similowski, PU-PH, professor of pneumology at the Faculty of Medicine Sorbonne University, head of the R3S department (“Respiration, reanimation, respiratory rehabilitation, sleep”) at the Pitié-Salpetrière AP-HP hospital and director of the UMRS 1158 Inserm-Sorbonne University, explains: “Respiratory problems “make noise” affect a large part of the fragile population. Thanks to OSO-AI, we aim to detect, early, the occurrence of acute respiratory events, whether they are “de novo” conditions (pneumonia, for example) or exacerbations of chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The use of this technology marks a major potential advance in our field.”
Jean-Bernard Laizet, innovation business manager at bpifrance, adds:” We have supported OSO-AI since its creation. The link with academic research is proven. This made it possible to support OSO-AI on Deeptech lines. The confirmed market interest in OSO-AI's offer reinforces our support for an innovative company with high added value, creating jobs and rooted in the Finistère region.”
Olivier Menut, co-founder and president of OSO-AI, concludes: “From its inception, OSO-AI was driven by the vision that the analysis of the sound environment could be of service to every human being. We started this great adventure by first addressing fragile people living in institutions. With the globally recognized expertise of the AP-HP teams, we intend to take a new step forward in remote assistance to the most vulnerable people and the remote monitoring of their condition at home while improving the daily lives of their caregivers and caregivers.”
[1] The R3S department (Respiration, Resuscitation, Respiratory Rehabilitation, Sleep), located within the Pitié-Salpetrière Hospital, an AP-HP.Sorbonne University hospital group, is one of the most renowned structures of this type in Europe. It is directed by Professor Thomas Similowski, PU-PH, pneumologist. Within it, the Pulmonology Department is directed by Professor Capucine Morélot-Panzini. The R3S department is backed by an INSERM unit (UMRS 1158 Inserm-Sorbonne University), also directed by Professor Similowski.
About Sorbonne University : Sorbonne University is a world-class multidisciplinary intensive research university covering the disciplinary fields of literature and humanities, medicine, and science and engineering. Anchored in the heart of Paris and present in the regions, Sorbonne University has 52,000 students, 6,400 teaching and research staff, and more than a hundred laboratories. Alongside its partners in the Sorbonne University Alliance, and through its multidisciplinary institutes and initiatives, it conducts and programs research and training activities in order to strengthen its collective contribution to the challenges of three major transitions: a global approach to health (One Health), resources for a sustainable planet (One Health), resources for a sustainable planet (One Earth), societies, languages and cultures in mutation (One Humanity). Sorbonne University is also a member of the 4EU+ Alliance, an innovative European university model that develops strategic international partnerships and promotes the openness of its community to the rest of the world. https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr - @ServicePresseSU
About OSO-AI: A deeptech start-up pioneer in Ambient Intelligence, OSO-AI has developed a technology that is unique in the world: the Augmented Ear of Caregivers. This innovative solution, making the most of artificial intelligence and the recognition of noises and sounds, allows the secure and remote monitoring of fragile people and users of medico-social institutions while improving the quality of life at work of health care workers. Oso-AI was created in 2018 in Brest by four engineering friends, with a long experience in international groups in France and the United States. It employs 30 highly qualified people (engineers and AI developers, data scientists, data labellers). For more information: www.oso-ai.com
About AP-HP: The AP-HP is a university hospital with a European dimension recognized worldwide. It is organized into six university hospital groups (AP-HP). Center - Paris Cité University; AP-HP. Sorbonne University; AP-HP. Nord - Paris Cité University; AP-HP. Paris Saclay University; AP-HP. Henri Mondor and AP-HP University Hospitals. Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris (Seine-Saint-Denis) and is organized around five universities in Île-de-France. Its 38 hospitals welcome 8.3 million sick people every year: in consultation, in emergency, during scheduled hospitalizations or in hospitalization at home. She provides a public health service for all, 24 hours a day, and it is both a duty and a source of pride for her. The AP-HP is the largest employer in Île-de-France: 100,000 people — doctors, researchers, paramedics, administrative staff and workers — work there. http://www.aphp.fr
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June 2023