This could be extremely helpful in a hospital or small health facility context to establish room traffic, measure patient throughput accurately, and even pick up unwitnessed falls.
I imagine Allied Health would love this, and Orthopaedics. Very clever.
Does a bit - plenty of potential for abuse, eh? As with everything tech, ethics (and sometimes legal framework) are vitally important as us human beings are only partially trustworthy.
Had a nerdy conversation about this on Friday evening. Thoughts turned to surveillance, ethics and contact tracing (counting and then measuring distance to others).
It is interesting tech which benefits from massive computation as I assume they didn’t do this on their phones (edit: turns out they used a server with 4 GPUs).
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I struggle to understand the ethical concerns. This tech seems small-scale in its application and confined in its reach within a defined model of care. Given installation requires consent, not having your loved one die alone and unnoticed on the floor following a fall seems a highly ethical thing to do.
For mass non-specific surveillance of the populace, the analysis of imaging data from cameras seems more practical and insidious than this technology. I am thinking of London for its high levels of overt surveillance. Apparently, it was all for my peace of mind and safety, so I should be grateful, and my consent was not required. Good to know.