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Elderly people are to be monitored in their homes using
sophisticated computer surveillance equipment, in a pilot scheme run by
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. Sensors will be attached to doors, locks, kitchen equipment,
beds, baths and even toilets in the homes of the elderly, under the
Insight Active Care Environments Scheme. These sensors will feed information to a computer, which is
linked to a telephone and speakers. All the equipment is to be retained in
the home and controlled by the resident. The idea is that if the sensors identify a risk – such as a
back door being left open for an unusually long amount of time – the
system will communicate a warning to the resident, either by phone or over
an internal speaker. If the warning is ignored, then a third party (a
relative or call-centre) will be contacted. The 'insight' project is based on the 'Millennium Homes' idea
developed by Professor Heinz Wolff at the department of bio-engineering at
Brunel University. Further development and marketing of the product has been handed
over to specialist healthcare equipment provider Huntleigh Technology.
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