MimoCare: Long Distance Elderly and Disadvantaged monitoring

Overall cover for Retirement Village residents and more

A retirement village will normally be composed of two groups. Single residents and couples. In terms of daily well being, there is a greater need to be aware of the single resident given the absence of a partner to co-relate with

But this raises the whole question of the existing safeguards. For many years, the only real option has been reliance on call buttons, wall mounted somewhere in the residence. Buttons that are often forgotten about or out of reach when it comes to a fall incident.

But this concept of calling your own ambulance is now well and truly well past.

When Internet of Things technology emerged as a new exciting platform in the early twenties, it was embryonic in its reach. In other words there was a frequency limitation that sometimes restricted coverage to the single compact dwelling. That was the Zigbee platform.

In the late 2017s a new platform, LoRaWan, (Long Range Wide area networks) appeared utilising lower frequencies and with it the ability to collect information from battery sensors located thousands of metres away across country. Coupled with that was the emergence of manufacturers supporting this new concept and helping develop an enormous market. This was initially restricted to monitoring temperature levels but very quickly over the ensuing years, many new data specific sensors were appearing that broadened the scope of critical sensing issues across many industries. Critical sensors for example that can monitor and warn of poor air quality that would be conducive to disease transmission.

In terms of retirement villages, we now have the exciting option of multiple small sensor groups in the dwellings of the vulnerable across a large residential village complex. Just low cost, no wiring installations with data from hundreds of sensors, being intelligently analysed and alerted where needed. A real walk-in and switch on platform.

Once that integration was achieved, we knew we had something exceptional in appeal and operation. A care provision servicing small battery driven sensors over hundreds of metres and even further with low cost network . There were expectations that this technology could apply areas such as the Aus outback and others where info from elderly in care over long distances would be a huge step forward in care provision.

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