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Karantis360 is a new startup, set up to help the families and carers of dementia patients and elderly people who wish to continue living in their own homes. The AI-enabled software keeps track of the vulnerable family member, learn their routines and how they varied across the days of the week, so that it could accurately detect and alert carers if something seemed amiss. Professional caregivers signing up to the system would
be required to log the kind of details families wanted to hear about every visit, and indicate that they had read and understood details of the individuals’ needs, interests and preferences before being able to proceed with a visit. All of this would offer families invaluable reassurance and transparency about the care they were providing, and become a service differentiator for care service providers.Founder, Helen Dempster, set up a meeting with bespoke development company DCSL Software – a company already known to them.
“I walked into their offices with reams of paper and pictures of what I wanted,” she says. “DCSL were very responsive and incredibly helpful. They provided us with a sounding board for my ideas, and constructive advice and feedback about what was possible and how best to achieve it.”
DCSL Software, which specialises in realising companies’ digital and mobile ambitions using the latest software technologies and development techniques, created a usable web solution and mobile app in under 10 weeks. “It was incredible,” Helen says. “DCSL has experience of developing healthcare apps, which helped set the direction. That and their agile approach to development meant we could quickly see something and refine it to get to exactly what we wanted, working in two-weekly sprints.”
The Karantis360 app, which supports Android and iOS devices, is based on the IBM Watson AI-based analytics platform and hosted in IBM’s secure cloud. When professional caregivers log visits and provide information about the client’s current mood and state of wellbeing, they upload a photograph to support this: the AI-enabled app ‘reads’ this to detect whether the client is actually smiling. The app was built using the cross-platform Xamarin framework, alongside .NET Core for the business logic and web API, all coded with C#.
