MAROOCHYDORE: Smart home sensors that monitor a person’s activities of daily living in their own home should become a standard feature of government-subsidized home care services, according to the CSIRO and a multitude of stakeholders.
The vision is one step closer to reality with a trial underway in five homes on Australia’s Sunshine Coast looking at how to integrate the CSIRO’s Smarter Safer Homes assistive technology into existing service provider models.
The collaboration between the CSIRO, Global Community Resourcing and Sunshine Coast provider Bromilow Home Support Services, which began in November, builds on previous CSIRO trials that focused on developing the off-the-shelf broadband-connected Smarter Safer Home technology to enable older people to live independently safer and longer in their own homes…