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Business EconomyPosted at: Jan 17 2019 2:57PM


Germany’s concern rolls out pilot project in India to tackle malnutrition with Microsoft AI

Bangalore, Jan 17 (UNI) Welthungerhilfe, one of the largest private aid organisations in Germany, has launched a project in India to help address malnutrition in children with the Child Growth Monitor solution a cloud-based, smartphone application powered by Microsoft Azure and AI services.
Developed by Welthungerhilfe, Child Growth Monitor is an intelligent application that can detect malnutrition and enable health workers identify and provide care to children struggling from chronic undernourishment. India is the first country to pilot this project.
Welthungerhilfe’s India-based partner Action Against Hunger is scanning 10,000 children under the age of five years across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan by March 2019. Twelve teams of 150 trained health workers have been provided app-enabled smartphones to collect data of children.
The current data available on childhood undernourishment around the globe is inaccurate as manual weight measurement scales often lack standardisation. Moreover, it is difficult for the human eye to detect if a child is suffering from malnutrition. Using an infrared sensor available in smartphones, the Child Growth Monitor App directly captures 3D measurements of a child’s height, body volume and weight ratio, and loads the data onto Azure Cloud.
The scans are then evaluated by nutritionists and IT specialists using Azure AI solutions, analysing the child’s dietary health. This data can further be used by field workers to work out nutrition plans and provide children with vitamin-rich provisions based on their requirements.
The Child Growth Monitor App has a learning algorithm, which gets smarter with each measurement.
Jochen Moninger, Innovation Director, Welthungerhilfe said, “Today, more than 800 million people around the world suffer from hunger. You can’t solve hunger, if you don’t know where the hungry people are. Welthungerhilfe envisions the Child Growth Monitor app will emerge as a recognized, global solution among humanitarian organizations. In India alone, that could free up hundreds of millions of dollars for reinvestment into the lives of children.”
Commenting on the program, Susanne Mehrtens, Senior Industry Marketing Manager, Microsoft Germany said, “The large amount of complex data requires state-of-the-art technologies to make them usable for Welthungerhilfe. Azure’s AI services provide solutions that continually improve and make decisions on their own.”
“In India, front-line health workers are responsible for tracking 40 to 60 kids within their intervention areas, but they don’t have the training or resources to accurately measure the children to assess their overall nutrition. What’s more, those same workers struggle to maintain the equipment needed to capture heights and weights. Having Child Growth Monitor on board will hugely impact the early identification of children suffering from malnutrition, thereby reducing the treatment time,” said Dr Shivangi Kaushik, Program Manager for Action Against Hunger, a humanitarian organization in India.
The essential characteristic of all Microsoft’s AI for Good initiatives is to combine Microsoft’s technology and expertise in AI and data science with the talent and expertise of groups around the world in fields such as environmental science, disability needs and humanitarian assistance, according to a company statement here on Thursday.
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