Led by Nanjing Lihang Bionics Industry Research Institute, a consortium including the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Yuwell Medical, Pusi Health Elderly Care Service Center, Nanjing Zhongke Funneng Information Technology Co., Ltd. and other institutions submitted the application and obtained official approval for the 2021 Jiangsu "Digital-Driven Future" Integrated Innovation Center under the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology.

The Integrated Innovation Center aims to develop an advanced medical-elderly care system that serves national strategies and social needs. Through coordinated participation and innovation across key industrial chain links, it advances the ecological development, industrialization and scaled implementation of medical and elderly care systems, creates an innovative smart integrated medical-elderly care model for national public health, and steadily improves public health standards.

The approved project, namely the IoT Smart Integrated Medical and Elderly Care Innovation Center, covers the development of biomimetic adhesive electrodes, big data collection, cloud service platform construction, and the establishment of a health management and smart medical ecosystem. Professor Dai Zhendong from Nanjing Lihang Bionics Industry Research Institute serves as the Director of the Center, and Associate Professor Ji Keju, person in charge of Nanjing Everadhere Technology Co., Ltd., acts as Deputy Director.

Leveraging the proprietary biomimetic flexible sensor materials and structures developed by Nanjing Everadhere Technology Co., Ltd., the project achieves breakthroughs in key hardware technologies for smart wearable medical devices. It addresses common drawbacks of existing commercial products, including poor wearing comfort, insufficient durability and weak clinical practicability. Supported by these technologies, smart ECG undergarments realize real-time monitoring of cardiovascular diseases and facilitate the large-scale commercial application of intelligent early warning systems for myocardial infarction.

The IoT Smart Integrated Medical and Elderly Care Innovation Center will integrate interdisciplinary innovation resources covering new materials, healthcare, internet, big data and other fields. Starting with cardiovascular health data management, the center targets key technological breakthroughs based on smart sensors equipped with biomimetic adhesive electrodes, and continuously develops new intelligent terminal products for healthcare IoT.

Human vital sign data will be collected and analyzed via cloud service platforms and application systems to build an interactive smart ecological platform for health management. The platform enables institutions to enhance integrated medical-elderly care capabilities and delivers personalized services for individual users. Demonstration applications will be carried out jointly with participating partners to formulate relevant standards and build a complete industrial ecosystem for the IoT-based smart medical and elderly care system.

The products developed in this project boast internationally leading performance and fill domestic technical gaps. The supporting big data platform will serve as a typical benchmark scenario for integrated medical and elderly care services.