Acorn Founder Launches Wireless Care Monitor,hogan vendita
Cambridge technology entrepreneur Chris Curry has devised a wireless sensor system that allows family to remotely monitor relatives living alone ?without invading their privacy ?and triggers alerts in the event of serious incidents.
Curry has launched the new UK wireless venture ?Care with Canary ?more than 30 years after co-founding the iconic Acorn Computers.
He has also created a related mart?care card ?a card reader that can be incorporated within the sensory circuit to monitor care worker home visits and how care services are delivered.
Curry reveals his latest venture in an exclusive interview with Ellee Seymour for Business Weekly online alking Heads?series.
Curry is at pains to point out that the initial sensory device is a consumer product ?a lifestyle monitor rather than a telehealth play designed for medics.
But he says that the sensors could be adapted for a range of lifestyle purposes, from blood pressure gauges to weight monitors. The smart card reader is part of future roll-out with Cambridge at its heart.
Users fit a series of sensory boxes around the home of the relative to be monitored ?there are no wires.
The sensory boxes link in wirelessly to a central hub, which is fitted somewhere else and out of sight. The sensors monitor movement, temperature and light levels.
The individual sensors deliver data to the central hub where it is analysed and sent via GPRS to the relative home computer, iPad or mobile phone. The battery-powered hub ensures continuity even if the mains power blows.
If relatives being monitored suffer falls or strokes,mbt schuhe günstig, an alert is triggered. First products should be available after September. Different pricing models are being analysed.
Curry said that the device was a pre-care lifestyle product. People living apart from family could be perfectly well ?but that did not mean they weren vulnerable. The same applied to people who were recently retired.
Care with Canary addresses the challenge of caring for those who might live 30 years or more after retiring. ur product is pre-emptive. It there before people are ill,?said Curry.
he problem with elderly people living alone,hogan, whether they are well or ill, is that they are at risk and are often separated from family for long periods of time.
are with Canary allows sons and daughters,mbt zum Verkauf, for example, to keep in touch with parents and keep an eye on their lifestyles without intruding. Many people resent strongly being watched and monitored. This is a way of doing it unnoticed.
sing Care with Canary,hogan, we can tell if relatives haven been going to bed on time or haven been feeding themselves because we can see whether they have been to the kitchen. The family can interpret the data and make a judgement as to necessary future action.?br />
Subsequent telehealth applications will be inevitable and will address the type of services previously addressed by hospitals or GPs, Curry believes.
Curry said the various nodes of the system could be adapted,mbt zum Verkauf, so instead of movement sensors modules became blood pressure sensors or weight monitors.
Some monitors could be further evolved so they are worn on the body. lectronic noses could detect the presence of disease by sampling the atmosphere in a room,?said Curry.
ithin five years electronic noses could perform a lot of the diagnostics that doctors traditionally do. If we do that remotely it marks a huge leap forward.?br />
Since the staggering success with Acorn, Curry says he has built products and failed to launch them ather too often?and confides in being a hot gospeller for crowd funding. He resents the stranglehold banks have on business but believes it is a hold that is weakening.
While the BBC Micro produced by Acorn remains a headline grabber, Curry confides that building the Microcomputer Kit14 (MK14) gave him great satisfaction.
He said: he MK14 cost ?9.95 and we sold 90,scarpe hogan,000 of them. It reminds me of the Raspberry Pi project. They have a million times more power and will probably sell a million times more of them.
he MK14 PCB was way out on its own way before anything else. I made the printed circuit board and tested it and did every part of it myself. I sat in the office all over Christmas answering calls from people who couldn get their MK14 working or wondered why it hadn't arrived by Boxing Day. It was a wonderful time and possibly I enjoyed that time more than the BBC Computer.? Related articles：
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