NHN, NHN Waplat and Healthmax said on Thursday they signed a business agreement to build an artificial intelligence (AI) smart home care system.

The three companies pooled their capabilities in line with the AX-Sprint project aimed at realising “Aging in Place” under the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Integrated Care Support Act. They will build a platform that combines smart devices and AI technology in care recipients’ home environments to support 24-hour independent living.

Under the agreement, NHN will support an AI infrastructure environment that processes health and care data. NHN has experience operating a national AI data centre and was selected in 2025 as a builder for a national graphics processing unit (GPU) acquisition project.

NHN Waplat will provide the Waplat AI Life Support Worker service. It is a smartphone-based care platform that manages elderly safety, check-ins, health, daily living and emotions. It implemented a user experience (UX) that lets users talk with a life support worker in her 50s using AI human technology. It recorded an application usage rate of 98 percent among elderly users with an average age of 77.2. It checks 7 risk factors for older people and delivers the results to care staff.

Healthmax will support digital healthcare devices that measure more than 34 types of health and daily living data, including blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, as well as the Biogram health analysis coaching service.

Hwang Sun-young (황선영), head of NHN Waplat, said, “We will collaborate with companies to derive a care model that aligns with the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s policy direction and continue working to build South Korea’s care infrastructure to respond to a super-aged society.”