The digital care assistant is always with you

Jürgen Besser: The moio.care system consists of a soft and flexible sensor that is worn on the back by people in need of care. There, according to its function settings, it recognizes when acute care-related action is needed and informs the associated caregivers via the moio.care app.

Since we can connect each person in need of assistance with any number of people providing care, an individual support network is created for each individual care recipient.

Information about the condition of the person being cared for is available via the system regardless of location, thus allowing more mutual (freedom of movement) and privacy. At the same time, it is indicated when concrete support is needed. This should help relieve the burden on everyone who is in this very demanding life situation.

What makes this system intelligent?
Jürgen Besser: The intelligence in the moio.care system has several facets and can be found in a wide variety of places. On the one hand, there is a technical intelligence, which is very much in our evaluation algorithms locally on the sensor. This is technically somewhat more demanding, but results in only selected, pre-interpreted and relevant data being transferred from the sensor to the moio.care cloud. This is important to us. We do not send raw data or have a data live stream that retroactively allows for unnecessary much information or analysis about a person. Secondly, intelligent is to be interpreted in the sense of "cleverly done". We have developed a completely mobile solution that can be used very flexibly due to our high level of understanding of everyday practical problems.

How did you come up with the idea of the digital care assistant?
Jürgen Besser: The idea arose as the essence of the experiences of several research projects that I was allowed to accompany as a research assistant. The main part is certainly the projects from the leading-edge cluster Medical Valley EMN, which I was allowed to accompany as an employee of the Diakonie Neuendettelsau (now Diakoneo). There are thus many suggestions and ideas in the product, which were collected in discussions with caregivers, scientists, seniors, and cared for.

Which hurdles did this initial idea have to take in the course of its realization?
Jürgen Besser: My own achievement was to transfer the multitude of suggestions and ideas into a coherent product concept and to provide it with a viable business model. In particular, taking into account the specifics of the health and social market.
What I personally underestimated as a founder and managing director was the amount of time it took to acquire capital. It is relatively easy to get start-up financing, but in the phase thereafter until again just before market maturity it is already more difficult. At the same time, it is a challenge to drive the project forward at full speed, both operationally and in terms of content.