As anybody that is caring for an elderly person knows, making sure that they are warm and safe is a major concern. Increasingly, many elderly people are on tighter budgets and tend to ration the heating they have in different rooms, often prefering to wrap up rather than turn the heating up. Also, they often have a habit of 'forgetting' to put their pendant on.
This is where The Room Guard is unique. As the Room Guard 'knows' and tracks what room the occupant is in, without needing a pendant, it can monitor the environment of the room that is occupied rather than the room the pendant, or sensor, is in.
For example, if the occupant moves from a warm living room and goes into a freezing bedroom, leaving their pendant behind, The Room Guard knows they have moved into a different room and it can call for a check if the occupant is still there after, for example, 10 minutes and the room isn't getting any warmer, ie, they haven't turned the heating on.
Briefly, here are some reasons why I think The Room Guard is unique:
This is where The Room Guard is unique. As the Room Guard 'knows' and tracks what room the occupant is in, without needing a pendant, it can monitor the environment of the room that is occupied rather than the room the pendant, or sensor, is in.
For example, if the occupant moves from a warm living room and goes into a freezing bedroom, leaving their pendant behind, The Room Guard knows they have moved into a different room and it can call for a check if the occupant is still there after, for example, 10 minutes and the room isn't getting any warmer, ie, they haven't turned the heating on.
Briefly, here are some reasons why I think The Room Guard is unique:
- It does not depend on the person wearing a pendant! - it uniquely uses artificial intelligence to identify and monitor what room the person is in. It doesn't need a human to monitor it and it does not call for help whenever a sensor gets set off by a sudden change in temperature, movement or light. It can watch conditions over a short period of time and then decide whether, or not, a check call is required.
- Heat rationing - increasingly, the elderly are putting their heating onto timer control thinking "'why heat an empty room?". But what if they fall asleep or become ill in an increasingly cold room after the heating has gone off? As the Room Guard 'knows' they are still in the room and is monitoring the temperature it will call when the minumum set temperature for an inhabited room is reached after a set amount of time. It can tell the difference between somebody in a warm room that is getting cold and somebody moving into a cold room that is getting warm.
- Getting confused with heating controls - often an elderly person will try and adjust their heating only to mess things up and have the wrong room warm and the room they are in cold. If they have left their pendant in the warm room nobody would know until it is potentially too late. As above, it will call for help if this happens.
- They don't know how cold they are getting - One of the dangers of a room temperature falling slowly is that it can become difficult to recognise how cold the room is getting. It is then too easy to drift into a sleep and hypothermia can set in. As above, it will call for help if this happens.
- They don't want to be a nuisance - even when they know they are getting cold, many elderly and vulnerable people won't call for help because they don't want be a nuisance, or, they are sure they will "get by". The PIA takes care of that by quietly monitoring 24hrs a day and making a silent call to a friend or relative to check that everything is ok in the sure knowledge that there is an issue to be checked out.
- It can easily integrate into an existing alarm system.
- Other uses - It can also be used as an intruder alarm, motion (or lack of) and smoke/ co2 sensors can also be integrated into it. See the other pages on this site for more information.