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Climax Technology Brings Connected Senior Care to ISC West

Climax Technology Brings Connected Senior Care to ISC West

Climax Technology Co., Ltd. is a security, senior care, and smart home complete-solutions provider that has successfully integrated wireless security, senior care, home automation, energy management, emergency service, and visual monitoring into innovative all-in-one solutions. Climax's extensive experience with security enables the company to integrate security features, such as world-leading 2-km RF range, VOIP, and reliable communications, into our security, senior care, and smart home solutions. Our extensive range of ZigBee and Z-Wave wireless home automation and energy management … [Read more...]

New e-Health Platform Powered by Z-Wave and Raspberry Pi

New e-Health Platform Powered by Z-Wave and Raspberry Pi

A new case study examines how BDigital implemented Raspberry Pi and Z-Wave home automation devices to develop the production version of its eKauri e-health and smart home platform, which uses the 100% open source WSO2 Carbon middeware platform. Senior citizens—many in fragile health and requiring assistance—often have limited resources for managing their health, participating in society, and ensuring their security. BDigital provides smart solutions for therapy management, disease prevention and healthy habit promotion through its three lines of specialization: integrated continuous care, … [Read more...]

LG Launches Senior Monitoring Pilots

LG Launches Senior Monitoring Pilots

Large technology firms are dipping their toes into the seniors care market, launching pilot programs with select developers and care managers to increase the use of remote, non-intrusive health monitoring in both single-family homes and large facilities. One such firm is Atlanta-based Thrive Senior Living, which has partnered with Seoul-based LG Corp. to develop a Smart Senior Living platform at its 15 properties throughout the South. The most recent Thrive property to open with this technology is The Legacy at Falcon Point in Katy, Texas, which was completed in September. The 164-bed … [Read more...]

AT&T Digital Life Senior Monitoring Leads with Love

AT&T Digital Life Senior Monitoring Leads with Love

AT&T's new Digital Life plans aim to connect caregivers to their loved ones via in-house monitoring services. Dubbed Digital Life Care, the plan is an expansion to the company's Digital Life platform, and will help those that need extra care to safely and independently remain in their own home. AT&T released some stats to reveal why they've expanded the platform: for the next 20 years, 10,000 Americans will turn 65 each day. Annual assisted living costs are projected to start at $50,000 a year in 2015. Today, 25% of adults are caregivers to elderly or disabled persons. AT&T plans … [Read more...]

Caring.com Spotlights Useful Gadgets for Elderly Parents

Caring.com Spotlights Useful Gadgets for Elderly Parents

Ninety-five percent of people 75 and older say they want to stay in their homes indefinitely. This desire for independence is perfectly natural, but for their children, it's also a recipe for worry -- that they'll fall, forget to take their meds, or just need assistance. You can make your parents' home far safer and more comfortable by investing in some of the new devices aimed at elders who have made the choice to "age in place." "Seniors can really get in trouble because they feel like they're losing their grip on independence," says Susan Ayers Walker of SmartSilvers Alliance. Ayers … [Read more...]

Z-Wave Participates in NIST-Sponsored “ClosedLoop Healthcare”

Z-Wave Participates in NIST-Sponsored “ClosedLoop Healthcare”

How can we use the Internet of Things to make life easier, safer and more cost-effective on a broad scale?  By deploying Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that combine digital data, physical devices and human activities into cohesive, responsive environments that can be active, reactive or proactive, depending on need.These technological ideas were introduced at the White House on June 10 and demonstrated on June 11 in Washington, DC, as The SmartAmerica Challenge. This White House Presidential Innovation Fellow project was initiated to bring together research in Cyber-Physical Systems and to … [Read more...]

Nonnatech Wins Grant From Pilot Health Tech NYC

Nonnatech Wins Grant From Pilot Health Tech NYC

Hebrew Home at Riverdale and Z-Wave Based Senior Monitoring Company To Fund Home Care Technology For Older Adults Throughout New York RIVERDALE, NY – July 2, 2014 – Nonnatech, an assistive and behavioral monitoring technology company, and the Hebrew Home at Riverdale have been selected as winners of a $100,000 Innovative Project grant by PILOT Health Tech NYC that will help older New Yorkers live safely at home. PILOT Health Tech NYC is a new program designed to increase innovation and collaboration within New York City’s health technology sector and is a partnership between New York City … [Read more...]

Elderly Monitoring Systems: Tips To Convince Mom She Needs One

Elderly Monitoring Systems: Tips To Convince Mom She Needs One

A new generation of Elderly Monitoring Systems are allowing adult children to keep tabs on their aging parents from afar, but how do you convince your Mom or Dad that watching their every move from your iPad is a good idea? Monitoring your mother’s daily movements, habits, and medication compliance from your mobile device may be a no-brainer for you, but what will your mother think about it? It’s one thing to be a helicopter parent to your own kids, but micro managing your aging parents is a different animal all together. After all, independence and privacy are two things we all hold dear, … [Read more...]

Z-Wave-Enabled Smart Home Creates Aging in Place Opportunities

Z-Wave-Enabled Smart Home Creates Aging in Place Opportunities

Recently, SDM Senior Editor Heather Young spoke with Mark Walters, chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance. In the Q & A below, Walters addresses the area of aging in place and how home automation can be an integral part of it. With 76 million baby boomers starting to turn senior, and 65 million of them taking care of elderly family and loved ones, aging in place is a ripe arena for technology solutions. Home automation can play an important role in achieving that objective. An example would be an electronic lock that stays open too long. If the lock is hooked up to a home control system a … [Read more...]

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