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Published on 1 August 2012 · 2 min read
Avidsen innovations supporting aging in place
InfoWeb Marketplace · Editorial teamPublished on 1 August 2012 · 2 min read
The aging of the French population will lead in the coming years to an increase in the number of dependent elderly people: 1 200 000 people will be dependent in 2040, compared with 800 000 currently.
Fortunately, advances in home automation that are at last affordable, together with the technologies designed and developed by the Avidsen teams, open up innovative and promising prospects that allow a person losing their independence to continue living in their usual surroundings.
1 person in 4 from the post-war generations is likely to experience dependency, according to INSEE (the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies).
But, on the one hand, no one can predict how public authorities' support for dependency will evolve in the future. On the other hand, family solidarity could decline because of the falling number of children per family and the geographical dispersion of families.
Yet numerous studies, notably the HID survey (Handicaps-Incapacités-Dépendance), clearly show that the role of the spouse, children and even grandchildren is essential to the success of keeping dependent elderly people at home.
The connected home, a solution for ?aging well?
Thus, the connected home, with its sensors and its remote control and communication tools, now appears to be an essential solution for aging well.
?With a home automation hub, the home adapts to each person, rather than the other way around. You can thus very simply create, through tailor-made living scenarios, the essential conditions to make daily life easier, both in the home and remotely, for people losing their independence and to help them stay at home,? explains Alexandre Chaverot, President of Avidsen.
For example, for people who suffer memory loss, it is possible to install gas or water leak detectors that alert the occupant, or people outside the home. For people with reduced mobility, centralized controls for closing shutters, doors, etc. can be set up to limit movement around the home. To reduce the risk of falls, illuminated pathways can be activated with a single switch.
Solutions that already exist today with the Blyssbox Liveez concept, designed and developed by Avidsen for Castorama.
The Blyssbox makes it possible to control all the home's equipment (lighting, motorized systems, etc.) through simple, intuitive interfaces, from a computer, a smartphone or a tablet, wherever you are geographically, via the Internet.
It also makes it possible to control access to the home (intercoms) and to view everything remotely, wherever you are (video surveillance cameras), and even to record these video sequences. In addition, thanks to alarm systems, cameras, domestic incident detectors or emergency call pendants, this communication hub keeps you informed in real time of the state of the home (fire, flood, leaks, etc.) and of the health of the loved ones living there (inactivity, illness, falls, etc.) by sending an SMS alert, a voice call or an e-mail. The system also makes it possible to see the person and communicate with them.
Fortunately, advances in home automation that are at last affordable, together with the technologies designed and developed by the Avidsen teams, open up innovative and promising prospects that allow a person losing their independence to continue living in their usual surroundings.
1 person in 4 from the post-war generations is likely to experience dependency, according to INSEE (the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies).
But, on the one hand, no one can predict how public authorities' support for dependency will evolve in the future. On the other hand, family solidarity could decline because of the falling number of children per family and the geographical dispersion of families.
Yet numerous studies, notably the HID survey (Handicaps-Incapacités-Dépendance), clearly show that the role of the spouse, children and even grandchildren is essential to the success of keeping dependent elderly people at home.
The connected home, a solution for ?aging well?
Thus, the connected home, with its sensors and its remote control and communication tools, now appears to be an essential solution for aging well.
?With a home automation hub, the home adapts to each person, rather than the other way around. You can thus very simply create, through tailor-made living scenarios, the essential conditions to make daily life easier, both in the home and remotely, for people losing their independence and to help them stay at home,? explains Alexandre Chaverot, President of Avidsen.
For example, for people who suffer memory loss, it is possible to install gas or water leak detectors that alert the occupant, or people outside the home. For people with reduced mobility, centralized controls for closing shutters, doors, etc. can be set up to limit movement around the home. To reduce the risk of falls, illuminated pathways can be activated with a single switch.
Solutions that already exist today with the Blyssbox Liveez concept, designed and developed by Avidsen for Castorama.
The Blyssbox makes it possible to control all the home's equipment (lighting, motorized systems, etc.) through simple, intuitive interfaces, from a computer, a smartphone or a tablet, wherever you are geographically, via the Internet.
It also makes it possible to control access to the home (intercoms) and to view everything remotely, wherever you are (video surveillance cameras), and even to record these video sequences. In addition, thanks to alarm systems, cameras, domestic incident detectors or emergency call pendants, this communication hub keeps you informed in real time of the state of the home (fire, flood, leaks, etc.) and of the health of the loved ones living there (inactivity, illness, falls, etc.) by sending an SMS alert, a voice call or an e-mail. The system also makes it possible to see the person and communicate with them.
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