Our Longevity Explorers have been brainstorming about what they want Smart Homes, Artifical Intelligence (AI), Robots, and the Internet of Things to do for them in the future.
We have generated lots of ideas we hope innovators will find helpful as they design new products and services. And we have been evaluating a variety of new products and sharing what we learn.
Photo by Chastity Cortijo on Unsplash As part of our “Smart Home Features for Older Adults” series, we are sharing some specific recipes and “kit lists” for individual smart home features — organized on a “room by room” basis. Overview This article covers several smart bedroom features that author Frank Engelman has found useful for family … Read more
As people grow older they often become somewhat forgetful. We start to worry about questions like “Did I leave the water running?” How do we make it so these sorts of questions are not things that we need to worry about?
I was worried about water leaks and about forgetting to turn off the water, so I installed an auto shut off faucet and a water leak sensor. Here is how to do it.
As we explore various smart home solutions useful for “better aging”, we get requests for some specific “kit lists” that contain a collection of the products needed to implement some of the DIY solutions found on this site. This page contains specific sample Alexa Routines used in these smart home solutions. It is the companion … Read more
I wanted a simple smart door lock, that did not require major “installation”, and which I could use to have Alexa “check” whether my doors were locked at night when I went to bed.
There is a lot written about how important it is to get a good night's sleep. But how do we measure our sleep in the first place, so we can monitor whether it is "good", and whether any things we do to improve it actually make a difference?
I wanted a way to track sleep without having to use a “wearable”, because I thought that would be preferable for the “loved one” I was researching this for. Here is the solution I evaluated. It worked well for me.
Caption: Memory Care Unit Robotic Pet Menagerie Wondering if “Robotic Pets for Seniors” are a good idea? Here is a real world report of the author’s experience deploying robotic pets for dementia patients in an assisted living and memory care facility in San Francisco (Rhoda Goldman Plaza). Read on to learn how they were used, what the reactions … Read more
Remembering the specific name of lights in each room can prove difficult, even when we use them daily! Here are solutions to that issue.
Photo by Sidekix Media on Unsplash As part of our “Smart Home Features for Older Adults” series, we are sharing some specific recipes and “kit lists” for individual smart home features — organized on a “room by room” basis. Overview This article covers several smart bathroom features that author Frank Engelman has found useful for family members … Read more