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Why Choose a MOBILE Personal Emergency Response System?
Submitted: August, 2010

Mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS) allow wearers the freedom to venture away from their homes, while maintaining personal safety.

Changing Populations in Senior Living Settings Require New Ideas about Resident Security and Freedom
Submitted: August, 2010

Mobile Personal Response System adds Personal Security for Senior Living Residents without Restricting Their Independence.

New MPERS device with GPS solves a critical issue for Alzheimer’s Patients and their Caregivers
Submitted: August, 2010

Mobile PERS System with GPS benefits seniors at risk for wandering, and allows peace of mind for caregivers.

Revolutionary NEW iTalk Reminder Assistant- Voice Activated Reminder Clock
Submitted: April, 2010

The NEW iTalk Reminder Assistant allows you to easily record important tasks with alarm times. iTalk is completely voice activated and can record up to 10 reminders at specific times for today only, everyday or any day of the week. Speaking English simply talk to the iTalk Reminder Assistant in your normal voice to record reminders, set the alarm, ask for today’s date and more. The iTalk Reminder Assistant is useful, practical and much easier to use than traditional alarm clocks, eliminating the need to use confusing buttons with the addition of a personal reminder assistant so that you nev

QuietCare Home Health Security System
Submitted: April, 2010

QuietCare is a patented service early detection and early warning system that permits elders to live more safely and independently in their own homes.

HealingHomes, LLC
Submitted: April, 2010

HealingHomes, from Tiverton, RI, is focused on providing innovative, comprehensive, and holistic solutions for home-based living for families with a disabled loved one. Our goal is to maximize freedom and independence for both the care recipient AND the care provider(s). Our solutions enhance every level of human functioning; physical, psychological and social and are reflected by the diverse range of housing and technology products that we provide.

HomeFree at Home
Submitted: April, 2010

A home wandering prevention and resident well being monitoring system.


Pilot Projects

FamiliLink- Online communication solution for older adults to stay digitally connected to others
Submitted: April, 2010

FamiliLink empowers families to more easily provide care and support to their elderly loved ones by including them in the digital loop through accessible and user friendly technology. FamiliLink offers a subscription based service for individuals and a hosted solution (software as a service) for senior care facilities and senior communities.

Set-Top Box for Home-based Delivery of Health Care
Submitted: April, 2010

Our research centers on the use of multi-point videoconferencing, using small set-top boxes (the DocBox) which are placed in patient's homes. These units, about the size of a paperback book, connect to a home television and to a broadband internet connection. Our videoconferencing unit requires little or no interaction from the patient, and is controlled centrally by the health care or wellness provider.

Presbyterian Pilot Project~ Cost effective holistic innovations in providing technology solutions.
Submitted: April, 2010

A state-of-the-art and technologically advanced Parkinson's disease movement impairment residence that is serving as a national model in the care and treatment of Parkinson's and other movement impairment diseases both on campus and within the community.

Context Aware Devices to Support Independence
Submitted: April, 2010

Intelligent, computer-based devices that support older adults and others with memory deline, by using wireless sensor networks to determine when reminders of daily activities are needed, and generating personalized reminders as appropriate.


Research and Development

Health Monitoring in an Agent-Based Smart Home
Submitted: April, 2010

The MavHome smart home learns models of inhabitant behavior and uses the models to automate the home and provide health monitoring assistance.


Emerging Technologies

SeeCare: Consumer-led Care and Support
Submitted: May, 2010

SeeCare is a Web 2.0 application that empowers the person in need and their family, friends, and carers to cooperatively manage care and support at home and within the community. Through the establishment of Circles of Support and the specification of Cooperative Care Plans SeeCare facilitates a broad range of care and support activities - domestic, health, and social support. The person in need and their primary carers can use SeeCare for the controlled sharing of care and support information at the right level to the right people. For more details please visit http://www.seecare.net/

Low Cost Wearable Monitoring System(Sensors,Microcontroller,Mobile/Cellular Phone)
Submitted: April, 2010

The project is related to an emerging area of applied research called “wearable computing”. Our task in this project is to design, implement and test a wearable healthcare monitoring system. The main idea is to develop a complete unit consisting of sensors, a digital signal processor or microcontroller, a small battery, etc, that monitors a patient condition and sends information wirelessly to a nurse room or to a doctor’s cell phone alerting them to the condition of the patient and perhaps the location. The unit has to be light, wearable, consumes power efficiently.



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