The SPHERE House Can Monitor Its Residents' Health
From: IEEE The Institute - 12/07/2015
By: Monica Rozenfeld

One hundred of these homes will be installed in the United Kingdom by 2017

The SPHERE (Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment)
House is an old, two-story Victorian home that the project’s researchers
retrofitted with smart technologies to determine if data it collects on the
occupants can track their health. The group designed the home with an
integrated and synchronized system of some 60 sensors, cameras, and
wearables. The project received funding of a little more than US $18 million
from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the United
Kingdom’s equivalent to the US National Science Foundation. The goal is to
have the system installed in 100 homes in the Bristol area by 2017.

At this time, the system is not set up to advise users about what steps to
take to improve their health based on the data. Nor is it designed to alert
emergency workers if someone falls or needs help. However, such features are
likely to be standard in smart homes in the future, so as to make the elderly
and disabled safer in their homes.

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Links:
SPHERE (Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment) House
http://www.irc-sphere.ac.uk

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