The COVID 19 pandemic triggers the need for telemedicine. The See Far project proposes a new model of specialized medical care that provides greater accessibility for everyone. It is estimated that approximately 180 million people in the world do have diabetes and needs fundus examinations for good control and follow-up. Other diseases such as age-related macular degeneration or glaucoma are equally prevalent in society and…
A scheme based on intermediate prototypes (ABCD) has been used as a basic management tool to ensure progress and coordination during the development phases of the See Far project. The solution involves various components, technologies, experts and partners distributed throughout Europe. It has been very important to establish internal milestones to check progress, coordination, consistency and to get all the benefits of prototyping (experimentation, learning,…
MDD is short for Medical Device Directive while MDR stands for Medical Device Regulation, and May 26th 2021 marked the transition from MDD to MDR. The transition had been underway for some years and was scheduled to take place on May 26th 2020, but was postponed one year to May 26th 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] What is a medical device? Medical devices can…
During the first steps of the SeeFar consortium, key aspects were identified that would make the technical solution not just a good technological proposal. The challenge went further and consisted in transmitting in each of the phases of evolution, the spirit of a solution so destined to support the vision problems of so many people. For this reason, it was essential to strengthen the alliance…
See Far project was presented on national television ‘Station ET3’ in Greece. Our partner FORTH presented the See Far smart glasses that will adapt to the needs of the users and optimize their view. In order for this to be achieved, we are developing a personalized visual assistant that will adapt the environment to the needs of the user by capturing the condition of the…
The rise of Digital Apps in the Healthcare Field Digital Apps and platforms are set to become the “new normal” in healthcare. According to Deloitte, the need for a cost effective healthcare is increasing every year. The NHS funding gap forecast to reach £30 by the end of 2021. Moreover, the rise in chronic conditions in the UK, expected to cost £5 billion per year…
Visual aid via cutting-edge technology seems to be around as a concept for a very long time, playing an integral role in science fiction novels, films and video games, aiding their main characters to accomplish some of their most difficult tasks. It seems that we have reached a point that it is more than ever safe to say that visual aid enhanced by state-of-the-art microcomputer…
One of the innovative features of the See Far solution is that the provided suggestions are adaptive to the profile of the user. This is achieved through the Personalized visual recommendation service. The Personalized profile of the user consists of the socio-demographic profile (e.g. age, occupation, marital status, etc.), the medical profile of the user (type of vision deficiency, severity of its vision deficiency, comorbidities,…
Topic: Augmented Reality, Personalized visual assistant service, Personalized visual recommendation service, Embedded navigation system “We will all soon throw away our smartphones” I’ve heard this quote many times in the past years and I keep wondering how long it will actually take. The past 5 years have been insane in the XR world, many companies have been working towards this new way of interacting with…
The SeeFar application consists of various heterogeneous modules, such as smart glasses, various sensors, processing units, smartphone applications etc. So, the integration of all these modules was a challenge during the project. For all possible integration strategies (“big bang”, “with the Stream”, incremental, Aggregates, Subsets, Threads or “Functional Chains”, top-down, bottom-up, sandwich or hybrid, Criterion Driven or “Critical Modules”, Continuous) for the SeeFar having considered…
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