When it comes to overseeing a person's environment, whether it's an older adult at home or in a senior living facility, it takes more than a wearable device that tracks their movement. Monitoring can be bolstered by a Sensor-Enabled Environment (SEE) that utilizes several sensors deployed throughout the environment to monitor the person and his or her surroundings and movements.
Additional sensors may gather data that can be used to analyze and react to any situation. For example, an elderly person who did not want to wear a device at home or is unable to wear a device at home falls, multiple sensors can detect that in real-time and alert the appropriate caregiver, enabling better validation and response. If the person doesn't move due to a medical emergency, the sensors can recognize inaction and alert first responders. The sensors can be used to track daily activities, out-of-character movements, prolonged immobility, and even if a door is opened or a person wanders beyond a predetermined area. Sensors in a SEE can also be used to track heart rate, blood pressure, sleep patterns, medicine adherence, and vitals.
Care Processing complements the SEE with an intelligent system that connects data from multiple devices like fall detection wearables, microphones, speakers and sensors to alert caregivers and emergency services when a Person Under Monitoring (PUM) may need help. It reduces false alarms and improves response accuracy by validating incidents across multiple inputs, ensuring the right people are alerted quickly and appropriately in the event of a fall or emergency.
Several Sensors At Work At Once
When it comes to SEE, there are several sensors involved in keeping a person safe. The accelerometer is the speed sensor used on a wearable, such as an Apple Watch or iPhone, that detects speed and stops. Meanwhile, the gyroscope sensor measures tilting movements, which are essential in detecting falls and monitoring movement patterns. At the same time, the altimeter and barometer sensors measure different levels by matching atmospheric pressure to altitude, measuring when someone goes from a certain height to a lower height, for example, a fall. These sensors also aid in sending fall detection.
Other components involved in the SEE environment include sound, vibration, visual validation and active sensing using LiDAR and other home or portable devices. Altogether, a SEE environment can detect, see and hear if something is amiss and report to the appropriate channels while also alerting caretakers all in real time. Furthermore, it also helps decrease false positives for falls.
LogicMark's Increasing Role
Companies like LogicMark are actively advancing multi-sensor care through their technology platform. In fact, LogicMark has drafted multiple patents in the area of environmental sensing, multi-sensor fall detection and care processing, reinforcing its role not just as a product provider but as an innovator in the field. LogicMark makes personal emergency response systems (PERS), health communications devices and IoT technologies designed to create a connected care platform for seniors when they are in or out of the home. Instead of relying on in-person monitoring, the company uses advanced technology to offer a comprehensive suite of products aimed at protecting users from the effects of falls wherever they occur.
LogicMark has a broad product line of devices that utilize a sensor-enabled environment.
Take LogicMark's Freedom Alert Max, for example.
Freedom Alert Max is more than just a portable safety device – it's essentially a fully functional cellular phone, making it an important innovation in medical alert technology. The device includes features such as fall detection, geofencing location boundaries, and unlimited non-emergency calls. It also offers 24/7 U.S.-based monitoring, ensuring help is always available when needed. A first in the care economy, the device provides emergency caregiver video to validate that a fall has occurred and to determine how to treat it. Powered by mobile 4G LTE technology, the device provides reliable, two-way communication and advanced GPS location services for precise tracking. LogicMark's Care Village companion app provides emergency calls, fall detection alerts, device pairing, geofencing setup, GPS location monitoring and the ability for a caregiver to monitor the user and device status.
Freedom Alert Mini is an on-the-go, lightweight device designed to enhance safety inside and outside of the home. The compact 4G LTE device allows users to call for help at the push of a button, ensuring assistance is available anywhere with cellular coverage. It also includes fall detection technology, which senses when someone has fallen and sends an alert to an emergency monitoring center, a loved one or 911. The device can be lifesaving in situations where a user falls and is unable to call emergency services due to injury, unconsciousness or disorientation.
Complementing the fall detection feature are the Freedom Alert Mini's GPS location services, which can accurately pinpoint the user's location and notify authorities for a swift response. The Freedom Alert Mini connects to a 24/7 monitoring service that promptly contacts first responders, loved ones or caregivers when necessary.
LogicMark's SEE Devices In Action
LogicMark's devices are designed to work in collaboration with a Sensor-Enabled Environment to enable improved response across care scenarios.
For example, an older adult is wearing a Freedom Alert Max medical alert device in their home – it is paired with a LogicMark-compatible in-home microphone and speaker or home video camera, all connected to LogicMark's platform. If the customer under monitoring falls, the fall detection feature in the Freedom Alert Max will detect the fall. Or it may work together with the LogicMark-enabled home speaker or video camera and process data via LogicMark's patented AI to identify the incident. The caretaker is alerted and can validate the event through video on their LogicMark app.
The in-home microphone picks up the sound of the fall, or perhaps a LogicMark-enabled window vibration sensor detects the impact. Both of these sensors report the incident to LogicMark's Care Processing system. The wearable device and sensors also send data to a digital twin, which helps predict the impact of the fall. An alert is sent to both the caretaker and LogicMark's 24/7 monitoring service, which checks in on the person under monitoring.
Monitoring can also happen without the device on, when the person is, say, charging it. In this scenario, the LogicMark-compatible microphone and speaker, installed in the bathroom, along with a LogicMark-enabled window vibration unit on a bathroom window or mirror, can do the monitoring. If the person under monitoring slips and falls in the shower, the sound of the fall is detected by the microphone, and the vibration from the impact is picked up by the vibration unit. The system then alerts both the caretaker and the 24/7 monitoring service. Using the speaker, the monitoring team can ask the person if they are okay. If there is no response, emergency services (911) are dispatched. If he or she responds and says they need help, the monitoring team or caretaker can assist accordingly.
Sensor-enabled environments represent an improvement in the way we care for our loved ones, and LogicMark is helping make the change happen. With drafted patents supporting environmental sensing, multi-sensor fall detection and care processing, LogicMark continues to drive innovation in connected care.
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