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Using Smarter Technology for Elder Care

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Mikael Eklunk, of UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, is testing a new sensor network at a retirement home.  This network consists of sensors that are only about the size of a deck of cards, and are designed to detect when seniors fall or suffer from acute ailments.
If the [...]