在医院和其它医疗机构经常发生跌倒事故。总部位于布鲁塞尔的MintT公司开发了一种智能系统，该系统具有传感器、算法和人工智能，可实时发出警报并预测跌倒风险。
Falls occur regularly in hospitals and healthcare facilities. The Brussels-based company MintT has developed a smart system with sensors, algorithms and artificial intelligence that generates alerts in real time and anticipates fall risks.
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Medical Intelligence Technologies（MintT）成立于2015年，由一组运动分析软件专家、一名护士和一名信号处理工程师组成。他们现在决定集中他们的知识、技能和经验，逐步就跌倒检测制定适当的解决方法。
这项技术不需要摄像头，而是用一个传感器，它可以自主地传输房间里的形状轮廓，就像一团团的小点。算法和人工智能分析原始信息并能识别地板、墙壁、家具、床等。这项技术还可以检测运动，例如一个人行走得快或慢，或可能正在跌倒。整个系统自动运行，但还需要有专业人员监督。该系统能实时发出警报，从而可以更快地提供帮助。这一方面能提高患者或住医疗机构的人的安全、护理质量、信心和自主性，另一方面也能让医护人员更安心，。此外，这还能使我们从跌倒事件中吸取教训，以便在未来尽可能地预防这种事件。
MintT希望从2023年开始进入比利时和法国以外的其他国家，并将其业务扩展到家庭护理。
Medical Intelligence Technologies (MintT) was founded in 2015 by a team of motion analysis software specialists, a nurse and a signal processing engineer. They have now decided to pool their knowledge, skills and experience to gradually devise adequate solutions around fall detection.
There is no camera involved, but rather a sensor, which autonomously transmits the contours of shapes in a room like a cloud of dots. The algorithms and artificial intelligence analyse that raw information and recognise the floor, walls, furniture, the bed, etc. Movement can also be detected, for instance of a person walking, fast or slow, or possibly falling. The whole system runs automatically, albeit under the supervision of professionals. The system gives an alert in real time, which makes it possible to intervene much more quickly. This significantly improves the safety, quality of care, confidence and autonomy of patients or residents on the one hand, and the peace of mind of healthcare personnel on the other. It also allows us to learn from fall incidents and, as such, to prevent them as much as possible in the future.
MintT is hoping to move into other countries than Belgium and France starting in 2023 and to expand its business into home nursing.
