SKT teams up with SNU Hospital for fine dust study
SK Telecom has joined with Seoul National University Hospital to offer technical support for the hospital’s study to find the correlation between fine dust and lung diseases, the nation’s top mobile carrier said Friday.
Under their memorandum of understanding, signed the previous day, SK Telecom will provide the hospital with smart telecommunication devices optimized for the research of lung diseases.
The hospital will give the mobile carrier’s “everyair” portable sensors to patients participating in the research.
The platform that SK Telecom launched in October 2018 provides information on overall air quality, including fine dust, ultra-fine dust and ozone levels, in real time.
The portable sensors will measure patients’ exposure to fine dust and send the data to the hospital through a central server, the company said. This will help the hospital collect and analyze fine dust levels more easily and accurately.
“The everyair portable sensors will measure patients’ exposure to fine dust more accurately compared to existing research methods,” said Hong Seung-jin, who heads the artificial intelligence (AI) home unit at SK Telecom. “We expect our latest cooperation with the Seoul National University Hospital to help come up with more appropriate measures to counter fine dust issues, which have become of national concern.”
Lee Chang-hyun, a radiologist at the hospital, said his team will carry out advanced research on lung diseases utilizing cutting-edge information and communications technologies.