More and more technological tools are facilitating the daily lives of older people, in particular to enable them to maintain their autonomy at home for as long as possible. With the smart lock, seniors gain in dependency and benefit from the advancement of smart home solutions.
Technology for the seniors
At the arrival of a very respectable age, the loss of autonomy, as well as the fear of loneliness, affects seniors. However, an elderly person still living at home can benefit from adapted solutions to provide more comfort on a daily basis. These are tools to facilitate the accomplishment of certain tasks that have become more complicated or require too much effort. Thanks to the development of smart home tools, such as the smart lock, the housing becomes more secure, with functions that can be programmed and modified at any time.
The smart lock
For seniors living alone at home, the smart lock offers very interesting possibilities. Equipped with access control technology, it allows you to adapt certain daily actions to limit travel. Equipped with very discreet opening sensors, the lock can be adapted over time to the habits of the main user, who can unlock it or adjust the parameters using a remote control. A great advantage to facilitate access for visitors or various providers such as the home nurse or meal delivery person. When using the smart lock manually, the senior benefits from a power-assisted opening and closing. The lock can also take a leading role in an emergency; it detects abnormal changes that occur. By means of an alert mode it can then alert the family or close persons. Finally, scenarios can be programmed in advance, for example an automatic locking from a specific time (night mode).
What else we can use
Here’s are the listing of devices and programs that we can adapt to facilitate home care for seniors:
- Door and window sensor installed on the various doors and windows
- Self-learning through the user’s lifestyle system
- Detection of a suspicious change of habit and alert to family/caregivers
- Scenario programming (door locking during night hours, etc.)
- Manual remote control for easy interaction with the system
- Power-assisted opening and closing when manually using the lock of the smart lock