SMU-TCS iCity Lab partnership for senior citizens extended

India's software giant Tata Consultancy Services has decided to continue its partnership with a leading university here for another three years to develop a project for senior citizen care services.
The "SHINESeniors Project", a joint venture of Singapore Management University (SMU) and TCS iCity Lab, initiated effort to make community care services more effective through innovations in care delivery.
"Through SHINESeniors, it is hoped that the cost of care delivery will be lowered significantly given the lower reliance on manpower," said a joint statement from SMU and TCS.
The iCity Lab was established in August 2011 within the SMU School of Information Systems as a three year research collaboration on research related to healthcare services.

The works for the lab includes, among others, Sensor-enabled homes in support of ageing-in-place for senior citizens living here.
"We conceptualise and design the SHINESeniors Project to help tackle some of the issues related to the old aged people, who are increasing faster than the working population age of 20 to 64, " said Steven Miller, Dean of School of Information Systems and Vice Provost(Research) at SMU.
"we aim to design and develop a sustainable living environment for seniors here, thereby uplifting their current lifestyle," said Vish Iyer, President of TCS Asia Pacific.
"This research will lead to the development of an end-to-end personalised care delivery platform from sense making to emergency response services,"he further added.