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00:00Imagine a brand new city for Ireland 25 years from now home to a quarter of a
00:13million people my science has helped solve some of the biggest issues facing
00:19our country today that is futureville and this is how we make it happen we
00:28have a plan to reimagine Athlone as a city of the future
00:35with brand new neighborhoods transport networks and a vision for what life will
00:41be like here we call it futureville it's entirely possible and now it's more
00:46important than ever in this show I'm in Helsinki to discover the brand new food
00:52supply we could all be eating in 2050 so then can be of course many things a bit
00:57like a potato this smells amazing this is why you're a Michelin chef yes how in
01:04futureville looking after your heart will be all about prevention rather than cure
01:08my doctor in this scenario might not be a doctor it might be an AI healthcare coach
01:13that's what we would envisage for wearable devices and why timber towers could fill
01:18our skyline mass timber is approximately 30% faster to construct that is by all
01:24accounts really rapid in 2050 hopefully the housing system will work for us
01:29rather than the other way around but first get ready for robots when we cut
01:38the ribbon on futureville one in four of us in Ireland will be over 65 so we
01:43need to plan what life will be like for our elders like me so futureville 2050 I'm
01:49gonna be in my 80s and one of the things I think about is how do I stay fit and
01:53active what I need to do now to be healthy and so that we can flourish into
01:58our older age think for me it's making sure that I'm as fit as I can be strong
02:04healthy so that I can look after myself for as long as possible so that I can be
02:10independent in my own home for as long as possible and this was thinking of the
02:14generation to come after me I'm here in the Dublin mountains to meet a hiking
02:20group who walk and talk about preparing for old age do you think about your care
02:28as you get older and your health and and what the future might bring I do think
02:33about it a lot and my husband had a massive stroke f eight years ago and he
02:39was in hospital for a long time he went to a nursing home I did take him home for a
02:44while I found it really difficult caring for him at home because it needed two
02:48people because he had to be hoisted everywhere so I think I don't want that
02:52for myself I have that fear independence is is to me is very important you know
02:59it really is like no one wants to leave their house I don't want to be a burden on
03:04anybody you know like your kids your kids have their own lives they've got their
03:08kids the last thing you want is them looking after you these walkers aren't
03:13afraid to chat through difficult issues early why was it important to you both
03:18to have conversations with your loved ones about your care into the future and
03:22and should we all be having those conversations I'll always think
03:26practical I listen and I'll talk about it I spoken with my kids about it I
03:30spoken with my wife about it and I don't want to go into a nursing home my son
03:36dropped me up tonight and I actually had this conversation in the back of the car
03:40with him and yeah he knows I don't want to be put into a nursing home I want to
03:46stay in my home he won't he says if I have to change it myself I'll change it
03:51well I says I done it for you when you were a child so thanks very much
03:56our home is our home we've spent our life building it up it's our comfort zone
04:00why would you want to disturb that why not try and stay in that for as long as you
04:04want one thing we all have in common is a desire for independence and in
04:13Futurville it could be this guy who makes sure we get to enjoy it okay guys are
04:19you ready to meet your new teacher okay Decker come on out
04:34meet Decker a humanoid robot designed to help promote physical and mental
04:52well-being Decker we're gonna get our p class going yeah okay are we ready stand
05:00up 10 jumping jacks 10 squats this robo fitness instructor has been developed by
05:10professor Derek O'Keefe and his team at hive laboratories in Galway University what
05:15exactly is a humanoid and how do they differ it to say regular robots so when
05:21people think of a robot they often think of a mechanical machine humanoids are
05:26specific in that they have human-like motions has you know hands and legs and
05:29can move around and what exactly can Deckard do we designed Deckard and
05:37programmed him so that he would be able to tell people about preventative
05:41health care the things that they can do to help them live longer such as better
05:45nutrition better exercise better sleeping so that he's able to interact in a very
05:52authoritative way with people about exercise nutrition sleep to optimize
05:57people's risk factors for things like chronic diseases
05:59for some of us it might seem strange talking to a robot or dancing with one but for the
06:12younger generation it could become second nature does anyone have any questions for
06:17Deckard do you like sports I love sports I think staying active and playing sports are
06:24great ways to have fun are robots going to take over the world oh no no we robots are here to
06:31help and make the world a better place by promoting health and fitness
06:36Deckard has already been out in the real world where he has been helping with
06:40conversations around mental health so we worked with Pieta and we did the
06:47darkness into light walk this year he was able to talk to people but also he
06:51was able to start that conversation you know a lot of people unfortunately aren't
06:54able to talk openly about their emotions but when they see something like
06:58Deckard they just engage with him much easier so Deckard can really help talk to
07:02people about their mental health and start that conversation to make sure
07:05people can think about their mental health not just their physical health
07:08over the next 25 years robots like these are likely to become a familiar
07:13presence in our lives the World Health Organization warns that by 2030 there will
07:19be a shortage of 11 million health workers so robots could be doing the
07:24job for us can you shake the parachute how important is it that we really
07:29embrace technology humanoids like Deckard especially as we think of our aging
07:34population and their health into the future so there simply isn't enough humans to
07:39look after the humans that are living longer and into their their older age so
07:43robots can play a really important part in providing some of that you know routine
07:47repetitive work that many of us do in healthcare coming healthcare robots are
07:52at a place now where they weren't even 10 years ago and we're going to see more
07:56of them in our society in some Asian countries they have technology in the
08:02home robots in the home that might make life a wee bit easier anything that would
08:07help you in your stay in your own home yeah I'm I'm open for all that I'm not I'm not an old fogey I
08:15don't not that I don't like change I'm I embrace change say my scenario where my
08:21partner was at home hoisting yeah I'm on my own it would have been great to have a
08:26robot there to actually do it for me you know just to do the lifting and then the
08:30caring myself but then would they have the same conversation it's that I think
08:35there's an awful lot of loneliness amongst the old people you know lost them on their own
08:39on your marks get set go
08:44during the morning for example you could imagine the robot interacting with the other
08:54technology in your house so it's telling the coffee machine to go on it's telling
08:58the robot lawnmower it's time to go and cut the grass it's just doing all those chores
09:01and taking that decision burden off you and then later on in the day you know
09:05you're going for a walk and it's coming with you and it's keeping you entertained
09:08or maybe it's recording your environment when you want it to and then it's
09:12storing those memories those core memories for your family so it becomes
09:15essentially like you know a pet that has technology in it and that is with you
09:19the whole journey and we're going to see that more and more people are going to
09:22start to develop bonds with robots because it's going to be part of their life
09:31in Futureville it's not just our older community we'll need to look after our
09:39environment will need some TLC as well and even though we're planning Futureville
09:43for Athlone at the very heart of Ireland that means making sure we protect and
09:48preserve the ecosystems around our coast they will be vital to our city's
09:53well-being the delicate ecosystems around Ireland's coast capture more carbon
09:58than the rainforests but like the rainforests they're in real danger
10:04marine biologist Lucy Hunt has spent her career studying Ireland's coasts
10:10we're so lucky life is everywhere I just found this fella little baby
10:16shore crab scrambling along for Lucy the health of Ireland's oceans isn't just an
10:23issue for those who live by the sea it's about the future health of all of us
10:27everybody on this planet is a citizen of the ocean we are a blue planet and no
10:33matter if you live off in the mountains or in a city and the midlands in Ireland
10:38you're connected to the ocean from the water that you're drinking to the air
10:42and the oxygen that you're breathing so the Caesar and Ireland are full of life
10:47vital not just to the water but to every living thing on earth including us so
10:53we've got some lovely fucus vesiculosis it's a brown seaweed and you can see the
11:00air bladders here that keep it up at the surface of the water so it can capture
11:04the Sun's rays to photosynthesize the oxygen that's produced in the ocean is
11:10over 50% of the oxygen that humans actually breathe this is sea grass a plant that is
11:18crucial in helping to slow global warming it captures and stores carbon 35 times faster
11:24than tropical rainforests and they're living in shallow waters around the coast
11:31of Ireland they help carbon capture but they also help with erosion they're also
11:38a nursery for small fish and marine creatures it's really important that that
11:43carbon is captured and drawn down so that it's not in the atmosphere creating
11:48more and more warmth and an accelerating climate change seagrass was once plentiful
11:56in Ireland but is now under threat here and around the world
12:03the equivalent of a football field of seagrass is being wiped out every 30
12:11minutes globally sometimes it's due to climate change and the climate overheating
12:17the waters and then there's bleaching events pollution also is another factor
12:22destructive fishing practices where the whole areas are wiped out we often say
12:29like ocean health equals human health so this is really really important that we
12:36try and protect them as much as possible because they are protecting us
12:40a problem for the planet is a problem for futureville so I'm meeting will he's part
12:48of a team working to restore seagrass meadows around the world fast so will you're in the
12:54seagrass business show me a little bit about what seagrass is and what it does yeah I mean
12:58seagrass it it is grass in the sea there's nothing more complicated than that this carpets the ocean
13:08it's ten times more abundant than coral reefs but nobody really knows about it and it's this is
13:16absolute wonder plant and but it's yeah it's dying at a pretty fast rate around the world it's estimated
13:22that we've lost about 90 percent of all seagrass habitats and in the in the last century there
13:29was that there was a disease actually that kind of similar to the famine that took out a lot of the
13:34seagrasses around the UK and Ireland this whole area once upon a time was carpeted with seagrasses and
13:42and oysters as well once seagrass fields have been lost it's very difficult to restore them each seagrass
13:50plant has to be bedded into the ocean floor by hand it's slow and laborious myself and some friends
13:57we realized wow this is the reason it's not being done at scale is it's really expensive and really
14:01slow because we're doing it by hand people are there's no like underwater tractor for replanting
14:08seagrasses and the same way we have for agriculture will and his team decided they needed a solution
14:13that could operate quickly underwater and with minimal labor they turn to robotics and they
14:21invented Ulysses so we build an autonomous underwater vehicle collecting seeds and it's planting seeds
14:28Ulysses is a robot designed to replant seagrass meadows at speed we can do it a hundred times faster
14:36and one-tenth the price of what a human would do so what are some of the biggest challenges that
14:41you've got there the ocean is a very unforgiving place salt water it corrosive it rusts things that
14:48makes it super difficult similarly when you're underwater is much more difficult when you don't
14:52have access to the internet I can't keep checking oh am I in the right place on top of that as well
14:56the energy in the ocean is insane I mean anybody who goes down on a stormy day to like the west coast of
15:03Ireland or anything can see how much energy there is there so the vehicle is constantly being pushed
15:10and pulled and moved despite those challenges will and his team have successfully built five prototypes
15:17all of which are now under trials replanting seagrass meadows around the world right now we're working
15:24across a number of different projects in the US and Australia we're working on the Great Barrier Reef we're
15:30working in Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay on the world right to see grass restoration project there
15:34and we're working in Florida and a few more locations coming online across the next year so
15:39looking into the future what are your hopes for Ulysses where do you hope that it can go I mean
15:43we're still barely scratching the surface the ideal end goal is like you know in every bay around the
15:50world you have underwater Ulysses underwater vehicles and Ulysses boats planting and restoring these
15:56ecosystems as naturally as in Ireland you see the farmers out you know working in that manner for
16:03a company that's been around only for two years yeah you're doing amazing things yeah thank you very
16:08much yeah I'm so impressed if will Ulysses and his team can succeed in restoring the world's seagrass
16:14meadows they'll be helping to guarantee fresh air for Futureville Ireland and the entire planet
16:20still to come I reveal how timber towers could fill the Futureville skyline it's global there is a
16:27global movement towards use of mass timber and I head for Helsinki to discover the finished food of
16:34the future that could fill our store cupboards in Athlone 2050 I feel sorry for everybody at home that
16:40they can't try it this is Athlone high street today and this is how we're planning it 25 years from now
16:49as Futureville a metropolis with homes for a quarter of a million people which for many of us can't come
16:59fast enough it's a constant worry and stress that kind of homes in the background of your brain it's
17:10so unsettling and if you stop to think about it too deeply or too directly it will stop you in your
17:15tracks and you know you'd sit in the corner and cry a Dean Clark has a successful teaching career her
17:23problem is that at 47 years old she still doesn't own a home tell us a little bit about you I'm not
17:33teaching in Dublin by choice I'm teaching in Dublin because of necessity I don't live in Dublin though
17:39I commute daily from Portlaoise so long time in the car I mean the financial cost of driving to Dublin
17:45every day what's that like it's ferocious she's buying on her own and most homes in Ireland are out
17:52of aiding's price range I would qualify for a mortgage in terms of affordability but I don't
17:57have that lump sum deposit yet and because I'm renting and because I'm commuting the way I am it's
18:02becoming difficult to get that deposits in place and that's the stumbling block for me but I'm under a
18:09little time crunch as well because of my age if I don't have a mortgage in place in the next three
18:14or four years my fear is that I will be 75 years old trying to find the rent stories like a Dean's are
18:21common across Ireland they're the reason why we're designing Futurville and some new ideas will help
18:28get it done even though it looks pretty challenging we need to build 300,000 homes according to the
18:37National Development Plan but we also know that our environmental commitments mean we have to cut
18:42carbon emissions by 51% so doing both is going to be the hard part we've had a lot of work to do but
18:49we have got the science Olivia Rusk is an architect with a solution we have our traditional methods of
18:56construction these are the things that we're familiar with you know the bricks and mortar concrete steel
19:01frame and these are very high embodied carbon materials so what we need to do is try and find an
19:07alternative means of building the houses that we need with a lower embodied carbon material a simple
19:13material that's been around for ever trees this is a sustainable product and it allows for faster
19:23cleaner greener construction and the buildings typically are much quicker to build than say a
19:31concrete or steel frame by approximately 30 percent so timber is better for the environment as it has a
19:38lower carbon footprint than bricks concrete or steel but it's not as simple as chopping down Irish forests and
19:45using the word to build homes quickly we grow with well twice as fast as they would in Scandinavia and
19:51but because they grow for longer there were tends to be a lot denser and stronger than ours that speed of
20:00growth means Irish timber isn't suitable for large-scale construction we are actually behind most of the modern modern
20:09world so we're at about 24 percent of all our homes are built as timber frame and that's about half the rate that
20:17you would see in other countries but at Trinity College Dublin's amber research center Michael and
20:25his team have developed a revolutionary process to make Irish timber super strong so this is just a
20:32piece of ash it's which is one of our native species we then process that with chemicals
20:37environmentally friendly chemicals and we extract the lignin lignin is a natural polymer that gives the
20:43wooded strength Michael's process removes the lignin then replaces it with an even stronger polymer and that
20:49allows us to inject a bit of polymer into it and then compress it to produce a very high strength material it looks
20:57like this and it's 10 to 15 times stronger right so it's approaching the strength of steel Michael's research could offer a
21:07way to replace steel and concrete with super strong Irish timber so we can build Futurville quickly and sustainably
21:15meanwhile researchers in University of Galway are working on another technique to use timber to speed up construction
21:22this particular material here is cross laminated timber so how does a prefabricated section of timber wall compare in
21:34strength to concrete one of the main lateral loads a wall will resist is wind loading and that's what
21:41this test is intended to to show resistance against here so at the moment the loading has commenced we're
21:47pushing the wall and we're measuring the displacement at a range of different points the four millimetres
21:52uh nearly this is one ton 10,000 newtons and that applies about 1.5 tons which is relatively relatively
22:01high it's equivalent to a very large jeep that's as strong as an equivalent section of wall made from
22:06concrete it's known as mass timber well mass timber they say typically is approximately 30 percent faster
22:16to construct than say a concrete building or a steel frame building and the reason for that being is
22:22that mass timber elements are all prefabricated off-site and then assembled on site there's a 10 story building
22:30in london that was built in 52 weeks that is by all accounts really rapid construction
22:39this is being done in the uk in france in germany in austria north america it's been done in new
22:46zealand it's it's it's global there is a global movement towards the use of mass timber
22:51this sounds like a no-brainer mass timber to make houses for the masses fast
22:58so are we using this material we're not why not well one word regulations fire rules here in ireland mean
23:05we can't use timber to build any higher than 11 meters that's about three stories so what happens in
23:12the rest of europe are they limited to three stories in the eu they can build up to 80 meters high that's
23:17about 24 stories that's eight times higher than we can build here in ireland so we have a long way to go
23:24we do but the only way is up experts are agreed that we desperately need to change our approach
23:31to how we plan and regulate construction in ireland
23:37ronan thanks for being with us great to chat to you today professor ronan lyons is an economist
23:42and expert in the irish housing market ronan how many homes will have to be in ireland by 2050.
23:50so being realistic we have about two million homes in the country at the moment we'll need to add
23:55somewhere between one and a half and two million nearly doubling our housing stock by the middle
24:00of the century what kind of changes need to be made now to ensure that we are in a much better
24:06place by the time 2050 comes around the first step is actually acknowledging that that's the scale of
24:12the need and this is not just about people coming to the country or no longer leaving the country it's
24:18also about people living longer getting married later having fewer children or no children they
24:22don't necessarily need four or five bedroom family homes they need different kinds of homes but
24:26they're not getting built the problem is we don't have enough supply of apartments we're about 85
24:31percent houses 15 apartments uh we probably need to be going to something more like 50 50 reflecting
24:37the the rest of europe in terms of houses versus apartments what 2050 looks like to me is much more
24:44variety in the kinds of homes we have that allow people to match the home they have at the moment
24:50with how they live in 2050 hopefully the housing system will work for us rather than the other way around
24:58irine when you look ahead for the next 25 years so so 2050 where would you like to be i would really
25:05really love to hope that it's achievable for everybody that if you have the desire to have your
25:13own home that you can do that right now that's not achievable for everybody certainly at this moment in
25:19time i don't even know if it's achievable for me but i would love to think that everybody could
25:25athlone could be the place those homes at last become available in futureville our homes will be built
25:32using timber frames to create apartment blocks 20 stories high more than five times what's permitted
25:42today inside will be comfortable apartments that suit the changing makeup of our population and what's
25:49more it'll be green and clean from start to finish so in futureville we want our construction to be
25:56sustainable affordable fast absolutely we have to remember this is about people like a dean people
26:03that work really hard and should be able to afford a home but they can't 100 percent we need to embrace
26:09timber technology i fully agree today athlone is a town of around 20 000 people our plan for futureville
26:18would see it turned into a city of a quarter of a million where problems can be solved with science
26:25and an open mind like where the city gets its food should we farm it or fabricate it most of the proteins
26:32we eat come from animals so beef pork chicken and producing them involves intensive land use and can
26:40come with a large carbon footprint so we have to find viable alternative sources of protein we need a new
26:46approach to feed futureville challenge accepted that's why i have come here to helsinki the capital
26:54of finland the long winters demand an inventive approach to ensuring a constant food supply
27:00and that is exactly what's happening i'm here at the site of a brand new multi-million euro facility
27:07that could contain the future of a global food supply scientists here have invented a brand new process
27:15to create a brand new food called solane and it's 80 percent protein potentially we could harvest it
27:23in deserts and feed people and this really is next level this is where solane is made those giant vats
27:31contain very special microbes that feed on the carbon dioxide and hydrogen found in the air and then
27:37produce proteins carbohydrates fats and vitamins which are dried to produce a yellow powder this is not an
27:44animal product it's a how do we describe this protein so it's a microorganism a bit like baker's
27:50yeast or brewer's yeast like we would use in a sourdough or something like that yeah so is this a
27:55replacement food or is it a food in its own right so solane can be of course many things a bit like
28:02potato now we have kind of found this new potato and then we have just kind of discovered how to
28:08cultivate and discovered that it is safe for human consumption so we could replace traditional agriculture
28:13potentially yeah i mean the target is not to replace all the traditional agriculture but just
28:18to make it a little bit more at least even a little bit more efficient so it's how to create
28:24more food more protein dense food in a way that's better for the planet yes exactly so this has been
28:29the driver mika maninen has worked in a michelin star restaurant and is now cooking with solane to
28:35find out exactly what it can do nice to meet you nice to meet you as well i believe you have an apron
28:40for me here you go brilliant thank you very much so this this is the protein that originally was in
28:46nature that is now here for our food exactly it's a beautiful color how exciting is this with a
28:53completely new food product i'm basically the uh pioneer of this thing basically the only limitation
28:58is the imagination of the chef i love it who is using it in mika's recipe for pasta he uses solane
29:06instead of eggs after that it's just like making any other fresh pasta we can almost see through yeah
29:12and that's how we know that we are uh getting thin enough because solane is protein mika can also
29:20use it to make cream cheese like in his filling for these tortellini this is kind of a tortellini which
29:27is called agna lotti in italy i think we have to be really careful what we say about the pasta so
29:34we don't get any mad italians i'm also sorry to the italians for my style yeah we cut through the pasta
29:41this smells amazing yes that is white tomato sauce this is why you're a michelin chef so we add some uh
29:49green uh aromatic herb oil and that's gonna be beautiful green white and then yellow it couldn't
29:57be more perfect yeah bon appetit how do we say that in finnish uh thank you let's try it out
30:08slightly mushroom slightly nutty i feel sorry for everybody at home that they can't try it
30:15solane tastes like real food not something grown in a lab and it's great to see a chef like mika
30:20won over by this brand new protein usually when i meet new vegan ingredients they are
30:28they're lacking something but then i took the challenge to be a world first solane chef so
30:36i couldn't be more happy there's no question that solane is amazing it tastes good it's got lots of
30:43potential applications so in terms of futureville 2050 can i see us having packets of solane in our
30:49kitchen cupboards and adding them into things well we already use protein powder for example so yes i
30:56can i can see a world where something like this will become a staple for us still to come the sensor
31:02that could act as an alarm bell for your heart this particular device has reduced mortality over
31:0855 percent and why futureville is not an impossible pipe dream futureville 2050 could be with us already
31:16in 2030 in futureville more people will live in less space than in the athlone of today
31:26they'll share public transport driverless cars even electric water buses
31:33but keeping all these systems running at clockwork will require data futureville will need to be a
31:40smart city a smart city is really a city that's connected with lots of different types of technology
31:47devices and sensors and these are all collecting data with that data we're using it to make better
31:53decisions and plan for the future of the city but also help make the city safer and more responsive if
31:58you think about so many different challenges that our city faces from you know storms or emergency
32:03situations it's it's about having the right date at the right time you know whether it's the river
32:07level or whether it's where the rain is hitting hardest or whether if there's an accident that we
32:12can see where the congestion is building up here in carlo the town's public services aren't chatting to
32:18each other just yet but they do have this ireland's newest fire engine it can communicate with traffic
32:26for miles around so darrell the vehicle to vehicle communications how does that work on the way to
32:33the call if i press 99 mode just put it here 999 road activated she's letting me know that the 99 was
32:40activated i'm now transmitting a location the location is picked up by the satnavs of vehicles nearby
32:47warning drivers that a fire engine is coming giving them plenty of time to get out of the way
32:52that'll pop up as an alert in there on their satnav and that they get worn and basically pull to the side
33:01gotta love a siren
33:05emergency vehicle reported ahead van a stop to give me access to pass by
33:09if they're using the bluetooth we'll say um for off their phone for music and stuff it'll override that
33:21and alert them up where to vehicle approach and it clears them partially off the road allowing us to pass
33:26by safely in futureville fire engines will be part of a network that makes our city smart they'll collect
33:34and share data along with all the other vehicles in the city that information can be used to run
33:40something known as a digital twin what is a digital twin it's a kind of a cool piece of technology that
33:48you know is a virtual representation of a city so it's the buildings uh in in 3d it's the roads it's
33:55the infrastructure but then it's layering that data you don't think of all the sensors that we have
34:00in our cities around traffic flows around pollution around rainfall you start putting all that in in
34:06real time and all of a sudden you have this really dynamic model of our city or our towns you know
34:12what's happening now and then you can use it to predict the future here at future mobility campus ireland
34:19researchers are building digital twins to figure out how to keep traffic moving but old times like
34:25atlone don't make it easy ireland has a road network that's hundreds and hundreds of years old it's
34:32not like all these cities in the u.s with their nice grid iron pattern so essentially that there's some
34:37of the challenge that we face and of course weather is a big piece of that as well to help our medieval
34:42towns adapt to modern traffic flows researchers here have designed sumo simulation of urban mobility
34:50city it's essentially a digital twin or a simulator of uh city environments we're able to drop that map
34:59into into sumo and then start running simulations and looking at how people not just vehicles but also
35:06pedestrians actually flow through our towns and cities so how could sumo be used to wrestle futureville
35:13into becoming a smarter city we've done here is we've actually picked out kind of one of the
35:18more complicated junctions that we see in atlone and then we've applied that into sumo and what
35:24we're doing here then is we're actually now sending all of this different traffic to actually look how
35:28it behaves these light blue lines are actually representing radars that are looking down the road
35:36so typically a radar before used to just detect object there now that's actually detecting oh this is
35:43a truck this is a car i can tell how many of them are i can also tell the velocity that they're approaching
35:48once sumo has become a traffic flow master the next step is to control it so emergency teams can
35:55get where they need to go fast we can basically describe one of these vehicles as an ambulance we
36:01can get the simulator to to react differently to the to that vehicle we're looking at taking the
36:06learnings from this and then put that into the real world
36:13that would mean an entire city could instantly switch into emergency mode to give critical
36:19services the access and resources they need
36:24there's potential going forward or traffic lights will actually go red and close the oncoming sides
36:30of a green light straight road to the route the system knows where we're going so people get
36:34early warnings along the route they have the road cleared and we're driving straight road that would
36:38absolutely completely revolutionize your line of work wouldn't it absolutely it'll get us there
36:43faster if we get there faster better chance seven lines faster then as well and ultimately that's
36:48what we're here for seven lines and trying to help the community
36:50the future of safety in ireland will depend on people and technology working together in futureville
36:59it could mean the difference between life and death
37:13right now in 2025 heart disease is one of our biggest killers in ireland
37:17but modern medical practices are working so hard that by 2050 in futureville prevention will be the cure
37:2929 year old dara roach is a dad gym owner personal trainer former kerry footballer
37:36and the last person you'd expect to have a heart attack
37:43the 31st of january was was a regular enough day
37:46saw plenty of clients then maybe by half eight that night i was home i was just sitting down the
37:52couch watching tv i got very bad chest pain that went down all my left arm
38:05as the time went on it was like an elephant was nearly standing on my chest
38:08uh thank god tegan had the sins to ring the ambulance because i probably wouldn't have rang the
38:16ambulance and maybe battled it out another while and god only knows what would have happened then
38:21the pain just got increasingly worse um rang south doc and they immediately i suppose called the ambulance
38:28they were really quick to be fair they were there within six minutes
38:30and those tests didn't show up anything um sending me to black rock in dublin for a cardiac mri showed
38:42up the scarring and that's what showed that i had suffered a cardiac arrest how do you open it iels
38:50there's no family history of any sort of heart disease and i suppose i would have always associated
38:56it with maybe older people or people that were heavier or out of shape or smokers or something
39:02like that um i i would have never associated with someone that's that's fit and healthy and yeah it was
39:09it was a big a big shock for dara it's been a wake-up call for the rest of us it's a reminder heart
39:16disease doesn't always fit the stereotype that's why the future of prevention isn't just in hospitals
39:22it's in the data we track every day not long ago wearables might have been a bit of a gimmick but
39:28now we have them on our wrists on our rings in our phones in our pockets even but the real shift
39:33is what we do with that data and that's what we're here to explore in ucd
39:40i guess wearable technologies have obviously become more and more popular so they used to be a
39:44sort of a niche product whereas nowadays around 50 of the irish population at least and more in other
39:49countries owns a wearable and that means that there's a huge opportunity for public health
39:54research essentially taking people who already own a wearable device and using that data that
40:01they're already gathering to get better insights into population health and well-being it sounds like
40:07a great idea but only as long as the data is accurate which is why i'm here with my ucd colleagues
40:12today we're testing my vo2 max basically how efficiently my body uses oxygen we want to compare
40:20data from this lab grade equipment with the data from my wearable how do we actually tell whether
40:26you're at your vo2 max we use a couple of different measures for that the first is a gas analyzer here
40:32this mask another is is a measure of exertion where basically you tell us how tired you are the third
40:39criterion is that your heart rate gets within 10 beats of your age predicted maximum
40:46good to go if the data from my wearable matches the data from all this lab equipment
40:53it would mean consumer wearables can be made part of the public health system how are you feeling now
40:58lolly if you're happy to increase the elevation is that okay to 2.5 percent and we'll be here for
41:12two minutes to get an accurate reading i need to push myself to my limits at any stage if you want to
41:19stop the test just give us a thumbs down what you're you're doing very well great work it's not easy
41:30yeah okay stop okay well done okay there you go it's a lot harder with the mask on so what we
41:38we'd be expecting to see from somebody of my age on a graph like this um we can be brutally yeah no we'd
41:45be expecting to see something very similar so i think you did very well today this is the value
41:51there so we're at 24.7 and so that's the vo2 max value the results from the lab equipment and my wearable
42:02are almost identical more research is needed but it's a sign consumer wearables could be integrated
42:08into the health service do you think for future well ireland 2050 we're all going to have wearables
42:15right now we know that our health care systems are overburdened and we're looking for solutions
42:20to that problem wearables are likely to be a part of that solution and not the whole solution but
42:26envisage a scenario where low risk patients could be remotely monitored at home instead of taking up
42:31a place a hospital bed and it's important to mention that my doctor in this scenario might not be a
42:36doctor it might be an ai healthcare coach that's what we would envisage for wearable devices devices
42:42devices on our wrists could be an essential part of keeping us healthy in futureville
42:47but in galway dr faisal sharif is going one step further with technology that can detect heart failure
42:53before it happens heart failure is an to an epidemic level in our own hospital at one time if we have 40
43:01patients nearly 85 to 90 percent would be heart failure admissions at any time on a wardrobe
43:08dr sharif is leading trials of a new medical device a sensor implanted in the heart that could
43:13predict a heart attack by placing a sensor in the pulmonary artery here we can continuously monitor the
43:20pressure in the pulmonary artery and this is the one indicator that saves lives because we can
43:27immediately change patients medications to bring the pressure down again the patient will never have
43:32the symptoms and they stay well at home this is the cordella sensor it's surgically placed into the
43:40patient's pulmonary artery and can be easily monitored from home by the doctor
43:48patients can have one of these handheld devices they put it on their chest their heart signals and
43:54pressures are transferred to a computer which is seen by a healthcare professional or a nurse
44:02it means doctors can spot changes days before symptoms appear often preventing a hospital admission
44:08altogether this particular device has been shown to be very effective and has reduced hospitalization
44:15nearly 50 percent and has reduced mortality over 55 percent since his heart attack dara has returned to work
44:23his family and his other passion football i nearly get a heart attack every time he goes on the football
44:30pitch to be honest that's what's changed but i suppose definitely what's come from it is just to
44:38to not take life for granted we're definitely better appreciating our time together now for sure yeah
44:43darren now relies on wearable tech to monitor his condition
44:46tegan bought me one for christmas and i was just obsessed with it since i suppose i love the data
44:52that it shows you can obviously check your heart rate and especially when you're working out and
44:56you're putting your body under stress i think it's very important i'd be excited to see what the future
45:03holds on smart tech to see where your body is at and maybe preventable measures as well i definitely hope
45:10that it's something that's in the work and and hopefully something we'll see down the line
45:13that kind of remote technology could mean more patients being treated from home in what experts
45:20are calling virtual wards i hear this term the virtual ward or the virtual hospital what does that
45:27actually mean for us uh well let me give you an example to make that real so right now i'm wearing
45:33a patch on my just on my chest onto your skin it's stuck onto my skin tiny patch that is transmitting to my
45:42phone here my real-time vital signs so you can see my respiration rate is so i'm doing 14 breaths a
45:49minute my pulse rate is 57 and it's also showing my skin temperature but this information is also
45:55being transmitted to the hospital where i would you be a patient and the doctors and nurses in real time
46:01can see how i'm doing but they also can be alerted so for example if my respiration rate suddenly went
46:07it's now 11 if it went to 20 and they could get an alert to say actually we've seen a problem with
46:14martin and we need to intervene and then they can actually with the touch of a button they could open
46:18up a live video call with me to say martin we've just noticed this issue and let's have a discussion
46:24here's what we're going to do we're not talking about futureville 2050 we're talking about right now
46:28futureville 2050 could be with us already in 2030 but this should be deployed across ireland very
46:36rapidly and the rest of the world in futureville an emergency trip to the hospital or gp could be a
46:44thing of the past wearable technology or tech implanted into our bodies will monitor our health
46:51and share data with our medical teams so they can spot problems before things turn critical
46:59the future of healthcare is looking bright 100 with preventative medicine living independently into
47:05old age a city built for purpose and nature right on our doorstep it's all looking very promising
47:11and i'm really looking forward to our futureville retirement
47:13this series has shown us just how much potential ireland has not just to imagine a brighter future
47:26but to create it we've shown how futureville could offer a quarter of a million new homes built
47:33sustainably and affordably those buildings that are being done elsewhere in the uk all around the world
47:39you know can be done we've seen it we know that it's possible in futureville we can repair the damage
47:46that we've done to our environment put plastic behind us and build a city that preserves our planet
47:53for the next generation i feel immensely hopeful because i see the desire people have for change
48:04we see a change already that generation has so many more questions and higher standards i think
48:13the next 10 to 15 years looks very promising it will be a huge opportunity for ireland to really come
48:20to the fore and be a shining light as a green country through and through we've got the talent
48:27and the ideas to really forge ahead in futureville we prevent illness rather than cure it and our older
48:36people will live out their days in their own homes in our city we'll grow our own food and power our own
48:44future independently the story of futureville really is the story of ireland itself bold innovative and
48:53ready to take on tomorrow if we keep pushing forward and we keep believing there are absolutely no limits to
48:59what we can achieve
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