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Simplifying Smart Home Integration for Seniors
Caring for seniors presents unique challenges that don’t apply to other age groups. Unlike younger individuals who may recover quickly or adapt easily to new routines, older adults often face physical limitations, cognitive decline, and deep-seated resistance to...
Simplifying Smart Home Integration for Seniors
Smart home technology has the potential to improve seniors’ safety, comfort, and independence—but only if it’s designed with their unique needs in mind. Many older adults struggle with complex setups, privacy concerns, and physical or cognitive limitations that make adoption difficult. This blog explores the key challenges seniors face when integrating smart technology and offers practical strategies to simplify the process, ensuring that these innovations become helpful tools rather than sources of frustration.
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What Is WiFi Sensing and What Can It Do?
WiFi sensing, a form of short-range passive radar technology, is gaining prominence beyond internet access, offering applications like motion detection and monitoring. Cognitive Systems, a leader in WiFi sensing, enables motion-sensing services for 37 ISPs globally. WiFi sensing measures how WiFi signals interact with movement, leveraging existing devices like smartphones and PCs. With applications ranging from security monitoring to patient care, WiFi sensing operates in infrastructure or ad-hoc modes and can be active or passive. While promising, challenges include susceptibility to interference and resource depletion under heavy traffic. Despite hurdles, WiFi sensing is already finding applications in home intrusion detection, patient monitoring, and more.
Wi-Fi Sensing Adds Motion Detection and Gesture Recognition to Your Wireless Network
Wi-Fi sensing, a technology that utilizes wireless networks to detect environmental changes, offers alternatives for monitoring spaces without invading privacy. By processing signals from various Wi-Fi devices, Wi-Fi sensing can detect motion, presence, and other changes. Possible applications include security, elder care, home automation, and gesture recognition. The technology, still in its early stages, lacks standardization, hindering its full potential. Efforts are underway, including the IEEE 802.11 Working Group's amendment to support Wi-Fi sensing, to address gaps and establish standards for increased functionality, interoperability, and reliability.
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.