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What Is the Difference Between Wi-Fi Sensing for Wellness Monitoring & Eldercare?
The global health and wellness market, valued at over $4 trillion in 2021, highlights rising demand for proactive wellbeing technologies. With preventive healthcare and aging in place becoming top priorities, wellness and eldercare monitoring are no longer...
What Is the Difference Between Wi-Fi Sensing for Wellness Monitoring & Eldercare?
Wi-Fi Sensing has revolutionized both wellness monitoring and eldercare, providing tailored solutions for individuals at different life stages. While wellness monitoring helps younger adults track and optimize daily habits for proactive health management, eldercare monitoring focuses on supporting seniors, offering peace of mind with real-time alerts and ensuring safe, independent living. This blog explores the unique benefits of Wi-Fi Sensing in both applications, highlighting how it serves both wellness enthusiasts and aging individuals by tracking motion, sleep, and activity patterns without intrusive devices.
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For the IoT, User Anonymity Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought. It Should Be Baked In From the Start
Certain Internet of Things (IoT) businesses are adopting an "anonymity by design" approach, focusing on creating products that discard personally identifiable information from the start. Instead of anonymizing data after the fact, these companies aim to design products that make it impossible for them to identify individuals. For instance, Density, which developed a people-counting sensor, uses depth-perceiving sensors to count people based on height differentials, avoiding the need for cameras and concerns about surveillance. Cognitive Systems, which interprets Wi-Fi signal disruptions to understand movements, emphasizes processing data locally and avoiding the transmission of identifiable information to the cloud, addressing privacy concerns from the outset.
What is WiFi Motion?
Motion detection using your existing Wi-Fi.
WiFi Motion™ provides whole home awareness by sensing and deciphering movement anywhere Wi-Fi signals are present. All you need is a router with WiFi Motion software and all your connected smart devices will automatically double as motion sensors.
Best of all, it’s easy! You don’t need to install a bunch of new hardware. Upgrades are seamless. It will never be obsolete. You won’t even notice it’s running, and your privacy is always protected.
WiFi Motion for Wellness Monitoring
Caregivers want to know their loved ones are safe. Seniors and people with special needs want to maintain their independence at home with dignity. Enter WiFi Motion—the solution that uses wireless signals to detect motion without using cameras or infringing on privacy.
With WiFi Motion, caregivers can monitor motion, visits from health care professionals, and unusual behaviour such as staying in bed longer than normal. Motion is monitored unobtrusively without the need for wearable devices. It’s a much more affordable and convenient alternative to assisted living facilities and other security and health monitoring tools.
Smart Home with WiFi Motion Video
Experience a truly cognitive home with enhanced capabilities thanks to WiFi Motion. Using predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), WiFi Motion learns movement patterns and triggers smart home functions accordingly.
Enjoy the convenience of coming home to the temperature and lighting in your home set just the way you like it. WiFi Motion can trigger your smart home system to take specific actions based on movements, like adjusting the thermostat when you walk through the front door, or turning other smart devices on or off based on your preferences.
Eldercare with WiFi Motion Video
Discover the potential of Wi-Fi Sensing in empowering seniors who wish to maintain independent living and aiding caregivers in facilitating aging in place.
Wireless Technology Is Transforming Motion Detection
WiFi sensing technology, exemplified by Cognitive Systems' WiFi Motion™, utilizes wireless signals to detect motion, offering an innovative motion detection solution. By interpreting disruptions in RF signals transmitted between WiFi devices, WiFi Motion determines movement in a space without the need for additional devices or complex installations. It utilizes artificial intelligence to establish motionless environment benchmarks and learns movement patterns over time, improving accuracy and reducing false alerts. Compared to traditional solutions like closed-circuit television (CCTV) and passive infrared (PIR) sensors, WiFi sensing provides unparalleled accuracy, coverage, privacy, and affordability. Its applications extend to various sectors, including eldercare, smart homes, and commercial properties, presenting a cost-effective and versatile solution for motion sensing and smart device automation.
Home Monitoring Innovation in the Age of COVID-19
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has played a crucial role, with companies in the tech industry stepping up to combat the crisis. Among these, Cognitive Systems has showcased its WiFi Motion technology, providing whole-home awareness by using WiFi signals to sense and decode movement. WiFi Motion turns all connected devices in a home into motion sensors, leveraging the existing wireless network. Using AI algorithms, it establishes a baseline of normal home patterns, allowing it to accurately predict behavior trends based on detected movements. This technology is cost-effective, as it utilizes the increasing number of connected devices in homes. Applications include home monitoring, wellness monitoring, and smart home automation.
Cognitive Systems in The Most Disruptive Canadian Tech – CES 2020
Learn even more about our technology and the benefits of WiFi Motion™ by exploring The Most Disruptive Canadian Tech found at CES 2020, page 36
Episode 256: The Tech Industry Is Growing Up
This week's guest on the Internet of Things podcast is Taj Manku, the CEO of Cognitive Systems. He discusses the firm's technology, which measures disruptions in a home Wi-Fi network to track actions within the home. The technology currently enables ISPs and router makers to provide motion sensing for security, with potential applications for detecting falls or subtle motions like a baby breathing. Manku addresses privacy concerns by explaining how the company handles consumer data and emphasizes the steps taken to prevent even law enforcement from accessing information inside homes.