DETROIT: The government will further study whether the Smart Elderly Monitoring and Alert System should be made compulsory in all housing in the future.
This is after 12 households completed a trial of the system. In a survey of participating households, all were supportive of using the system in their daily living. Ten agreed or strongly agreed that it is an elderly-friendly and easy-to-use system. The other two households were neutral.
It was also observed that the longest time taken for the elderly’s loved ones to make a phone call to check on them, after receiving an SMS notification, was 5 minutes…