May 2023 AltumView is proud to be selected as one of only five Canadian companies for the UK Canada AgeTech Innovation Exchange Programme, and will visit UK in June 2023, and prepare for entering the UK market. Over 60 companies applied for a place in the coveted programme, with a Read more…
June 13, 2022 Dr. Jie Liang, President of AltumView, and a Professor of the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University (SFU), is elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). “The CAE Fellows have been selected for their outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada and around Read more…
May 26, 2022: AltumView proudly received a grant from AGE-WELL’s AgeTech Implementation Response (AIR) Program, which helps get innovations implemented in the real world to make a difference in the lives of older Canadians and caregivers. AGE-WELL NCE is Canada’s technology and aging network dedicated to improving the quality of Read more…
Feb. 2022. The SAM3 Lab is a collaboration between the Bruyère Research Institute and Carleton University in partnership with the AGE-WELL Network Centres of Excellence. Dr. Bruce Wallace (Professor of Carleton, Researcher of Bruyère, and Executive Director of SAM3) and his team is using AltumView’s smart activity sensor to help seniors age Read more…
From Mangar Health: A third of people aged over 65 (a statistic which rises to 50% in people aged over 80) will fall at least once a year. 20% of senior living community residents admitted to hospital after such a fall will have been on the floor for over an hour, Read more…
This New York Times article explains why falling and lying on the floor for several hours could become life threating for seniors. Creatine phosphokinase, or CPK, is an enzyme found in muscle cells in the body. If a muscle is injured or inflamed, the level will rise. That injury, called Read more…
VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, April 20, 2021 AltumView is pleased to announce that its award-winning Sentinare 2 smart activity sensor is available for pre-order now at its website www.altumview.com. Sentinare 2 is a revolutionary smart activity sensor for senior care, home health monitoring, and telehealth. It was recently selected as a CES 2021 Read more…
AltumView is collaborating with the AGE-WELL SAM3 Hub at Ottawa to apply AltumView’s award-winning Sentinare smart activity sensor to support aging in place. This collaboration is also supported by MITACS. AGE-WELL is Canada’s technology and aging network, funded by Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program. AltumView is an Read more…
