'Smart halfway house' to be built for the disabled

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Category: Ningbo News

Published: Monday, 17 December 2012 09:04

Ningbo's Jiangbei District started to build the first 'smart halfway house' in Zhejiang Province on Monday. The effort aims to help people with disabilities toadjust to and reenter society after receiving medical treatment.

Aimed to assist the disabled to adapt family and social life, the halfway house serves as a rehabilitation agency with a home life experience center, an aids and equipments center, and an information service platform. It is reported that the halfway house will be located in the Ningbo Ninth Hospital with an area of480 square meters.

An official of Jiangbei District said that the halfway house distinguishes from others by an intelligent information service system, which offers intelligent information service by means of communications networks, intelligent call, Internet of Things (IOT) and other high-tech resources