The ability to age-in-place at home is highly desired and provides seniors an opportunity to safely live independently for longer. The use of smart home technologies provides the capability for seniors along with informal and professional caregivers to work together to ensure the best quality of life. 

BASE TECHNOLOGY

Terry conceived and developed the Kildare Platform, a smart home system for aging in place. The platform was comprised of sensors, aggregators, displays, inference engines and cloud data storage. 

The following products were created using Kildare: 

• Clane, an in-home activity monitoring system.

• Bodenstown, an early warning fall detection system.

• Naas, a medication reminding system.

• Straffan an assistive aid for visiting nurses.

• Celbridge, a device activity sensor.

Technologies in these products included low power embedded WiFi processors, machine learning systems for activity detection, PIR motion sensors, Python and Java codes, leveraging MongoDB. 

FIRST PRODUCT

The Clane system was trialed in senior’s homes around the globe, showing that through lab and in home testing the system could gain a 50% sensor accuracy improvement day/day over existing systems based on security sensors. Combined with better sensors, the Q&A feedback, and inference algorithms the number of false positives in the system was reduced to 10% over the industry standard of 70%. 

END RESULT

The Kildare Platform was eventually sold to the Care Innovations a GE/Intel Joint Venture.