Assisted Living

Most people associate the term 'assisted living' with the elderly and vulnerable but the next generation of intelligent smart homes and other smart spaces will provide assisted living for all occupants. Our goal is to make the smart home simpler, safer, more convenient and more efficient for everyone, resulting in improved quality of life. This is something everyone finds desirable, regardless of age, ability or agility. It is also an major issue to be addressed as the age demographic of the UK [1] and the rest of the world changes.

There are numerous benefits to the smart home but for the elderly and vulnerable, it can help them stay independent and allow them to live safely in their own home for longer.

Current smart home technology can be unsightly, complex, expensive to install and far from intuitive to use. One of our key goals is to enable a great user experience that works for everyone by providing a range of user interfaces to the smart home and allowing each person to pick the one that works best for them.

Examples

A few examples of what we mean by assisted living:

• Intelligently controlled lighting that can provide a zero-touch user experience and just knows when to be on and when to be off. Lighting that your children cannot leave on!
• Appliances that warn you when they have been left on by accident and automatically switch off.
• A powerful, integrated alarm that easy to use and provides a great user experience. One that works with security sensors as well as smoke sensors, CO sensors, flood sensors, etc.
• Intelligent features and services to provide peace of mind, both inside and outside of your home.
• Pre-emptive and personalised user experience or notifications warning you of potential health hazards such as high UV levels, high pollen counts danger of ice or other adverse weather conditions.
• A smart home that you can chat with when away from your home, to query and control all aspects of it in a secure and private manner.
• A smart home that securely provides notifications and alerts to trusted 3rd parties, to allow remote relatives or carers to have peace of mind.

References

1. Office for National Statistics - Overview of the UK population: July 2017