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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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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.
Download the First Ever Wi-Fi Sensing Whitepaper
This Wi-Fi Sensing Whitepaper provides an overview of the Wi-Fi Sensing technology, classifies the Wi-Fi Sensing use cases and requirements, and identifies the gaps in Wi-Fi standards which would lead to the enhancement of the technology and ease of deployment if those gaps are addressed. Furthermore, the paper shares a Home Monitoring case study as an example application is presented, examining topics related to testing.
Data Overload: Downfall of IoT?
With an estimated 41.6 billion IoT devices by 2025, the challenge lies in deriving meaningful insights from the vast data they generate. AI plays a crucial role in assimilating data, but human involvement is key for value extraction and user experience. Many IoT projects fail due to challenges like analysis paralysis, operational inefficiencies, and a shortage of data science specialists. Cognitive Systems emphasizes a human-centric approach, focusing on user pain points, safety, and security, to ensure a smoother human interaction and successful IoT outcomes.
5 Fun Facts About Cognitive Systems Corp.
We started B2C, we compute on the edge, not just a home security company, turn IoT devices into motion sensors, over 155 patents filed and over 40 granted
Cognitive Systems to Advance Leading-Edge WiFi Motion Technology with Support from the Strategic Innovation Fund
Cognitive Systems Corp. is set to receive a $7.3 million investment from the Canadian government's Strategic Innovation Fund to further develop its WiFi Motion™ technology. The patented technology, when integrated into routers and gateways, monitors wireless signals within existing WiFi environments to alert users of motion, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) for advanced motion localization and personalized experiences. The investment will be used to enhance the AI engines, develop wellness monitoring features, and optimize energy management in connected homes. The funding supports Cognitive Systems' vision of a fully connected, cognitive smart home.
Waterloo’s Cognitive Systems Sees the Unseeable
Waterloo-based Cognitive Systems Corp has developed software that can detect ripples in radio frequency waves caused by movement, turning connected devices into motion sensors. The technology, known as WiFi Motion, can be used for security, health monitoring, and home automation. Installed on internet routers, it can alert homeowners to movement and adjust heating or lighting according to patterns learned over time. Cognitive Systems recently received a $7.3m investment from the Canadian federal government to support its growth. The technology has privacy features, as it doesn't use live video and offers user control over when it is active.
WiFi 6 Promises Faster, More Efficient WiFi for Smart Home
The next generation of WiFi, dubbed Wi-Fi 6 by the WiFi Alliance, is based on the IEEE 802.11ax standard and promises higher data rates, increased capacity, improved power efficiency and better performance.