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- admin - 01-28-2012

This forum is dedicated for the use of Comfort in Assistive living applications

Comfort is an ideal solution for assistive living needs as it is a highly configurable and programmable system.  Some possibilities are;
  • Use of motion and other sensors to run Responses to take ceSonertain actions like make announcements, or pla recorded messages
  • Time Programs run preprogrammed responses at any time of day or combination of days of week. This can play recorded messages or make announcements, turn on lights and appliances etc
  • Wireless pendants can trigger a dial out to carers - up to 8 numbers can be called including mobile phones, Central Monitoring stations and SMS
  • The Comfort door station can be programmed to turn on the porch light or exterior light as well as play messages or dial to a programmed phone
  • Comfort can be programmed to perform a wide variety of actions based on events and sophisticated conditional logic. Uo to 1023 Responses or programs can be configured
  • Comfort can be used with biometric and access control systems to run responses
  • Reminder messages can be recorded and played back when triggered by any event
  • Keypads can act as intercoms so that a carer can talk to the person at home through a mobile phone
  • Keypads can be used to call a carer on the programmed phone
  • The free iPhone app can be used to control lighing, heating and home appliances
  • Comfort as a Voice menu that can be customised with different word lists in many languages
See this TV show on the BBC called \"the House that Thinks\"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7377937.stm