PPG Archives - Sentigrate https://www.sentigrate.com/technology/ppg/ Driving innovation with data. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:32:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.sentigrate.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-favicon_blue-32x32.png PPG Archives - Sentigrate https://www.sentigrate.com/technology/ppg/ 32 32 Data4Growth https://www.sentigrate.com/data4growth/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:18:43 +0000 https://www.sentigrate.com/?p=7396 Data4Growth's goal is solving care needs by creating innovative Living Labs in elderly care homes, bridging tech companies and care homes.

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    Data4Growth

Reimagining elderly care
through Living Labs.

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    Data4Growth

Reimagining elderly care with Living Labs.

Data4Growth is a project aimed at improving healthcare in nursing homes by integrating existing technologies to address key care needs through Living Labs. It focuses on enhancing data collection, providing real-time insights to caregivers, and improving residents’ quality of life with solutions like pain monitoring and fall detection.

By fostering collaboration between Belgian technology companies and healthcare providers, Data4Growth drives data-driven innovation to create more efficient, personalized care.

The problem

Care homes often face delays in accessing cutting-edge technology that can transform resident care. The innovative solutions offered through the Data4Growth project can help bridge this gap, ensuring your residents receive the high-quality care they deserve.

The solution

By integrating existing innovative technologies from established tech companies, we can immediately enhance resident care in care homes, without waiting for new developments. Joining the Data4Growth project can make a real impact on resident safety and well-being.

Our role

Sentigrate’s role in the Data4Growth project is to connect healthcare sector companies with care homes, facilitating the seamless integration of innovative technologies into the homes’ existing infrastructure.

IntelliProve – PainProve

Vitals from video

IntelliProve developed an algorithm that measures various vital signs from a simple video captured by a smartphone camera. This non-invasive technology shows measurements of stress, heart rate and more.

Pain score

From this algorithm, IntelliProve also added a feature that can detect different degrees of pain from this video. This technology can be used to measure pain scores of people in care homes.

Combination of scores

Together with the IntelliProve’s Painprove, a general overview of a patient’s pain score can be found by combining the algorithm with already established ways of measuring pain, such as the VAS score, which is a self-reporting score that measures pain on a scale of 1 to 10, and the PAINAD scale. PainProve increases the quality of comfort for residents, while also allowing for a high ease of use for caregivers.

Wissner-Bosserhoff (Wi-Bo)

Safesense 3

Wi-Bo’s Safesense 3 is a sensor that can be installed in a hospital bed. The sensor measures movement in the bed, such as when a patient sits upright or gets out of bed, and the wetness of the bed, to detect potential bed-wetting.

Fall detection

By detecting when elderly patients fall out of bed, the Safesense 3 adds an important layer of safety in care homes, helping staff respond promptly and reduce the risks associated with unattended falls.

Targeted care

Safesense 3 uses these sensors to track the movement of residents. This way, care providers are able to use this data to give targeted care depending on each resident’s situation.

“Healthcare providers and technology companies are eager to innovate today: Data4Growth bridges that gap.”

– Thomas de Moor, Co-founder at Sentigrate

Project partners

The Data4Growth project consists of different partners, from technology companies to care homes.

KU Leuven
KU Leuven
AWS Amazon
AWS Amazon

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]]> Sovn https://www.sentigrate.com/sovn/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:51:43 +0000 http://www.sentigrate.com/?p=5256 Sovn is a company that developed smart earbuds that detect and interrupt grinding and clenching in real-time, giving you your restful sleep back.

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    Sovn

In-ear night guard to relieve clenching and teeth grinding.

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Teeth grinding and clenching are linked to frequent disruptions during sleep. SOVN tackles teeth grinding & clenching by targeting these sleep disruptions and improving one’s sleep in three steps: First, their advanced sensor technology and algorithms detect sleep disruptions in real-time; second, the earbuds create gentle, soothing vibrations to stop jaw movements without waking you; and third, in-app insights and guidance drive behaviour changes to maintain your healthy sleep.

The project

SOVN is a smart night guard that helps you relax your jaw whenever you clench or grind your teeth. Unlike traditional mouth guards, SOVN is a smart wearable that monitors your jaw movement from the ear and interrupts the grinding/clenching as soon as it starts with soothing vibrations.

Sentigrate supports Sovn on two fronts. We are responsible for streaming the data from the earbuds over the smartphone to the cloud. Secondly, Sentigrate is building the detection algorithm that is running on the smartphone, taking the limits of the hardware into account.

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]]> Sunrise https://www.sentigrate.com/sunrise/ Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:33:07 +0000 http://www.sentigrate.com/?p=4637 Sunrise offers clinically accurate home sleep tests in the form of a sensor in a small medical wearable placed on the chin.

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    Sunrise

Clinical accuracy in a
home sleep test.

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Sunrise is a company that developed a certified medical device for aiding the diagnosis of sleep apnea. The Sunrise technology fits into a single point of contact 8-gram sensor and offers results available within minutes.

The project

Sentigrate has built a machine learning algorithm that calculates the heart rate and oxygen saturation based on the raw PPG signal coming from the sensor on the chin.

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