SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s steel giant POSCO said Wednesday that it had developed a Smart Safety Ball, a smart device designed to prevent accidents in enclosed workplaces, for the first time in the world. The device enables users to sense in advance whether harmful gases exist in enclosed spaces. Before work [...]
BAAR, Switzerland, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Ascom (SWX:ASCN.SW), a leading supplier of Healthcare ICT solutions, is helping hospitals improve hand hygiene by delivering an advanced mobile solution that tracks staff compliance to hygiene procedures. For many hospitals, reducing healthcare associated infections (HAI) is crucial to improving overall patient safety. Hand hygiene remains to be [...]
BAAR, Switzerland, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The new Koutio Médipôle hospital in the New Caledonian capital Nouméa, located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, has optimized patient care communications and responsiveness for the new 645-bed facility by deploying Ascom Myco Wi-Fi devices to support clinician teams and Ascom Myco Wi-Fi/GSM handsets, used across paramedic teams. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Three new government initiatives will make use of the latest smart devices to help improve the lives of elderly farmers and the disabled. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion, in partnership with the local governments of Andong, Jeonju, [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A technology that can control smart devices with hand gestures without the need for touch has been developed by a state-run research outfit. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said on June 1 that it has succeeded in developing the “wearable gesture technology” capable of controlling wearable computers such as [...]