POSTS TAGGED AS smart homes

“Monitoring Independence” of Elders

Google Home
Various smart home devices may be an alternative to nursing homes and assisted living for elders living alone. As [MORE]

The Environment Monitors You

CubeSensor
Remember the “8 Ball” toy?  You asked a question, shook the 8 Ball and it gave you an “answer.”  [MORE]

Honda and Sekisui House Collaborating on Smart Homes

Honda-Sekisui House Walking assistant
Honda is a familiar name in the American car market, but it also has [MORE]

Housing and Health

Insurer Aetna estimates the average cost of a hospital ER visit for asthma to be around $6,000.  With that [MORE]

Insight for Daily Living

Memoto Camera
For designing “health smart” homes, for locating “roamers” with Alzheimers, for monitoring a special at-risk patient, an [MORE]

Smart Connected Homes

Home Health Home
Note the numbers in this piece about the value of home telehealth monitoring:  35-56 percent reduction in [MORE]

“Magic carpets” for Eldercare

Smart Carpet
“Personalized healthcare” has many dimensions, but a sensored rug that not only can detect falls, but can learn [MORE]

Possibilities for Touch Sensors

Touch Sensor
Touch-screen devices rely on a phenomenon known as time domain reflectometry, which occurs when there is a change [MORE]

“Magic Mirror” Smart Device Video

Combine facial recognition with object recognition, apply “personalized” information and something akin to Groupon, and you have a “Magic [MORE]

Energy Scavaging from “The Air”

In an experiment that electrical engineering researchers at Georgia Tech carried out, it was demonstrated that enough “ambient” electromagnetic [MORE]