Today’s college and university students’ fresh ideas contribute to the innovative, 未来的前沿技术.
As head of innovation at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, an Open Innovation1 方法特别贴近我的心. I truly believe it fosters the development of a culture of partnership and knowledge sharing, as well as accelerating the development of innovative services through rapid access to third-party technology and knowledge.
Most importantly, however, I believe Open Innovation provides an inexhaustible opportunity for serendipity, an inexplicable and elusive concept enabling innovation to occur where and when you least expect it. Even when a problem or scenario has been considered from every angle, partners from different cultures or areas of expertise — including students, who provide a different generational perspective — often transform the vision of the project, resulting in the emergence of innovative ideas far removed from the initial proposal.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has long embraced the opportunity to work with universities to challenge students on technological and societal issues related to our business and strategic sectors. The candour and fresh ideas provided by students who tackle the challenges offer invaluable insights into the subjects at hand. Additionally, their digital know-how, and cultural acuity are essential to address today's real-life societal challenges.
在2021年和2022年，我们邀请了两组来自美国的学生 斯特拉斯堡 — a leading engineering school within the University of Strasbourg, and a strategic partner of the Institut Mines-Télécom — to explore the use and possible integration of technologies associated with a home patient monitoring scenario. As a supplier of real-time collaboration and connectivity solutions, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is a major player in the health and e-health sector. The challenge was to understand the technological dependencies and associated risks, and to assess the advantages and disadvantages of the various possible solutions.
The first group was tasked with producing a demonstration illustrating the integration of an end-to-end medical data collection chain, 并解释了数据将如何共享, 在一个包含病人的场景中, the hospital, 主治医师和护理员. The project demonstrated the automatic collection of physiological constants such as temperature, blood pressure and oxygen saturation using a Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) gateway connected to the patient's internet box. 它也能够说明的使用 RainbowTM 阿尔卡特朗讯企业版 平台，当检测到风险情况时(例如, (温度异常升高), to enable the stakeholders to connect with each other to optimise the patient care.
The second group, in the 2022 project, were tasked with continuing the exploration begun in 2021 with a focus on two aspects:
• Reducing the intrusiveness of the solution to promote acceptance of the new technologies
• Extending the range of functionalities to ensure patient monitoring
The brief given to the students was to optimise the accelerometric data generated when patients move around their homes (for example, 使用智能手机或腕带收集数据). The main advantage of this type of sensor, unlike a camera, was greater respect for privacy. The second pertained to the digital frugality of the data generated, 关于减少传输所需的带宽. 他们考虑了几个想法, such as estimating physical activity and visualising progress in the recovery process. 然而，学生们主要关注的是坠落检测. The challenge for them was to come up with a complete solution for collecting and analysing data to automatically detect a fall and trigger an alert to the parties involved (doctor, 家庭护士及护工).
In this type of project, where the Design Thinking approach is at the heart of the process, the technological development carried out by the students is not as important as the prototype that makes the initial idea or concept tangible. The prototype provides a common language for all stakeholders , 他们是否来自工业界, academia, customers or users. 它允许一个故事被创造, so that it can be challenged taking into consideration everyone's needs and constraints. The format of the student projects proposed by Telecom Physique Strasbourg is well suited to this approach, 它探索了使用和技术场景. The quality of the videos produced by the students to assess their work allows the Design Thinking process to continue even after the project has been completed, a huge advantages innovation managers cannot afford to pass up.
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