A Pleasant Way To End Up A Double Degree

Almost a year ago, I took the risk to begin a new Artificial Intelligence degree while finishing my Computer Science Engineering one. Not only it was a challenge for me, but it was also an opportunity for me to get closer to this innovative field.
After hard work and no regrets, I end up starting my final internship for VISEO Technologies in Lyon (France). Today, the company (should I say Vincent ?), is giving me the opportunity to challenge myself on an innovative project mixing IoT and Artificial Intelligence.
The idea of this project is to create an intelligent computer system able to manage medical eletronic devices in a hospital departement. More specificly, I focus my study on the simplest devices (like a syringe pump).

But, For What Purpose ?

A nurse can spend between 5 and 10% of her day managing those devices. This is a really huge amount of time since a single patient can use up to 7 syringe pump at the same time (!). Every device is configured to work for a specific time depending on its function, on the patient’s condition, … .  The nurse’s job is then to check and refill those devices periodically.
When one of those devices malfunction or if has almost finish its program, it produces a really loud sound in the patient’s room in order to call the nurse for intervention.
Devices sound really often and can then stress them and stress the patient who’s resting. Besides, the nurse needs to come over the patient’s room, notices what is wrong with the device, and sometimes go fetch some medicine in another room and then comes back in the room. This is amplified by the lack of a centralisation system for devices informations (about their states, about the end of their program, and so on…).
Therefore, the main purpose of my project is to combine all the devices informations (and Artificial Intelligence) in order to warn nurses about futur actions.

Do You Really Need Artificial Intelligence For That ?

I think it is just the right approch.
Indeed, those kind of devices are full of underused data just waiting to help nurses in their job ! The Artificial Intelligence will help us to achieve two main goals :
  • First things first, the AI can manage a huge amount of data in addition to be really fast in decision making.
  • Second point, I have a good feeling on the idea that a system like that will be easily improved and complexified (which could lead us to a really powerful system).

So, What’s Next Step ?

After a month of work, I have a better vision of the project But I still need to keep myself updated about what is happening on the Artificial Intelligence planet, but also in IoT (which is not my strenght, for now).
I am really excited about this new mission, that I intend to accomplish ! To do so, I am working in collaboration with M. Vincent THAVONEKHAM in VISEO, M. Samir AKNINE and M. Huan VU who both are researchers in the LIRIS. My goal for now is to find the best AI solution (i.e : the algorithm) to solve this problem and find an optimal way to use it.




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