{"id":223035,"date":"2025-10-07T23:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/ai-radar-system-tracks-subtle-health-changes-by-assessing-patients-walk"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:29:31","slug":"ai-radar-system-tracks-subtle-health-changes-by-assessing-patients-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/ai-radar-system-tracks-subtle-health-changes-by-assessing-patients-walk","title":{"rendered":"AI-radar system tracks subtle health changes by assessing patient\u2019s walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-radar-system-tracks-subtle-health-changes-by-assessing-patients-walk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineering and health researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a radar and artificial intelligence (AI) system that can monitor multiple people walking in busy hospitals and long-term care facilities to identify possible health issues.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology\u2014housed in a wall-mounted device about the size of a deck of cards\u2014uses AI software and radar hardware to accurately measure how fast each person is walking. A paper on their work, \u201cNon-contact, non-visual, multi-person hallway gait monitoring,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-97757-y\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalking speed is often called a functional vital sign because even subtle declines can be an early warning of health problems,\u201d said Dr. Hajar Abedi, a former postdoctoral researcher in electrical and computer engineering at Waterloo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering and health researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a radar and artificial intelligence (AI) system that can monitor multiple people walking in busy hospitals and long-term care facilities to identify possible health issues. The new technology\u2014housed in a wall-mounted device about the size of a deck of cards\u2014uses AI software and radar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}