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The Hidden Risks of Assuming Everything’s Fine
It had been a quiet week. No calls, no alerts, no texts about prescriptions or appointments. Just the kind of silence that usually feels like everything is okay. By Sunday evening, you finally reach your mom. She answers on the second ring, her voice calm but a little...
The Hidden Risks of Assuming Everything’s Fine
In caregiving, silence often feels comforting — a sign that everything is fine. But as more older adults live alone and families grow farther apart, “no news” can hide early signs of decline. Small shifts in daily movement, routine, or energy happen quietly between calls and visits, long before a crisis becomes visible. This blog explores why the “no news is good news” belief persists, why it can be risky, and how gentle, continuous awareness can offer families peace of mind and seniors greater safety without sacrificing independence.
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Monitoring Wake-Up Delays Can Prevent Senior Health Crises
Wake-up time is one of the earliest indicators of senior health changes. Subtle delays in a daily routine, like waking 60–90 minutes later than usual, can reveal emerging physical, emotional, or cognitive strain long before a crisis occurs. This blog explores why wake-up monitoring matters, why traditional systems often miss it, and how passive sensing technologies can transform these overlooked signals into proactive, personalized care.
How to Design for the Age of Ambient Sensing
Smart homes are entering a new era—one where devices don’t just wait for commands but sense, learn, and respond on their own. This blog explores how to design ambient sensing systems that are intuitive, respectful, and trustworthy, ensuring technology enhances life without overstepping.
How to Turn Everyday Motion Into Strategic Value
What if your home could respond to you without needing to watch you? For service providers, the future of smart spaces lies in passive intelligence: detecting motion, not invading privacy. In this blog, we walk through a day in the life of a WiFi Motion–enabled home to show how ordinary movement becomes a source of extraordinary value for automation, eldercare, energy, and engagement.
Care Without Cameras: Dr. Taj Manku Talks Wi-Fi-Powered Eldercare on Communitech’s Tech About Town
“I didn’t want my parents to feel watched—but I needed to know they were okay". In this episode of Tech About Town, a podcast by Communitech, our CEO, Dr. Taj Manku, shares how his team created Caregiver by Cognitive, a simple, non-invasive eldercare tool that uses passive WiFi Motion to offer peace of mind—with no cameras, microphones, or wearables required.
How Wi-Fi Sensing Enables Intelligent Arming & Disarming for Motion Detection
Smart home users expect seamless, invisible automation, and security systems should be no exception. This blog explores how Wi-Fi Sensing unlocks smarter, more adaptive arming and disarming of motion detection systems, reducing false alarms and user error without relying solely on rigid schedules or manual input. From validating presence more intelligently to adjusting for irregular routines, Wi-Fi Sensing brings next-gen intelligence to home protection—improving user satisfaction and offering new upsell opportunities for providers.
How We Built a Smarter MQTT System for the Future of Wi-Fi Sensing
As Wi-Fi Sensing grows in complexity and scale, its backend infrastructure must evolve to keep pace. By shifting from traditional clustering to message bus partitioning (sharding), performance bottlenecks were reduced, reliability improved, and a scalable, cost-effective cloud system was developed to handle real-time data from thousands of devices. The blog also explains how smart routing, sticky sessions, and dynamic scaling work together to maintain fast, stable motion detection that can grow with increasing demand.
Cognitive Systems turned a founder’s caregiving journey into a global tech solution
When Dr, Taj Manku’s parents faced back-to-back medical emergencies, he knew they needed support—without sacrificing their independence or privacy. That experience inspired Caregiver by Cognitive, a passive Wi-Fi Sensing solution now helping millions monitor loved ones with dignity. Read Communitech's profile on how one founder’s story became a mission to change eldercare for good.
How Wi-Fi Sensing Could Help Lower Insurance Premiums in Caregiving
As insurers demand stronger documentation and accountability in aging-in-place care, Wi-Fi Sensing is emerging as a discreet, always-on ally. Learn how this passive technology could help care providers reduce liability, strengthen compliance, and potentially lower insurance premiums—while delivering greater peace of mind for families and seniors alike.
How Cognitive’s Cloud Infrastructure Powers Wi-Fi Sensing at Scale
Wi-Fi Sensing may feel seamless on your phone, but it’s powered by a robust cloud architecture working behind the scenes. In this blog, we take you inside Cognitive’s cloud infrastructure—from how it enables real-time motion detection without cameras to how we deploy scalable, secure systems tailored to our partners. See how our hybrid edge-cloud platform translates movement into insights, ensures data privacy, and adapts to every use case—whether you're supporting aging in place or launching smart home features across global markets.