‘3rings Smart Plug

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Is my ageing Mum or Dad OK today?, is a question more families ask each day.In the UK 10m people are over 65. Impacts of the age wave are becoming apparent to manypeople. Pressure is increasing on families to provide care for ageing loved ones but hecticlives & distance is not always conducive to that need.The ‘3rings Smart Plug’ project is a method to evaluate the potential of connectingunconnected elderly relatives to their Internet enabled families to introduce DistributedFamily Care.The ‘3rings Smart Plug’ has two components:- A hardware device that allows a domestic appliance such as a kettle or TV to beplugged in and then it is in turn plugged into the mains. When the domestic appliance isturned on the ‘Smart Plug’ ‘signals’ the 3rings cloud based ecosystem via the built in GSMcircuit.- The cloud based software ecosystem is a event monitoring system that communicatesactivity or lack of activity to defined family & friends using Internet and telecommunicationsprotocols such as push notifications, web, email, SMS & Calls.The key to acceptance & success is to introduce technology in a way that is familiar to theageing relatives removing the ‘fear’ of technology but simultaneously providing an ecosystemto communicate activity to their Internet enabled families.The base assumption is there would be no requirement for the Internet at the ageing relatives.Power usage can indicate activity, activities such a making a cup of tea, watching the TV canprovide a valid signal that ‘Mum is Up’, unusual activity can indicate areas that may needinvestigation. By monitoring ‘activity’ or lack of it, events can be communicated to thefamilies to make them aware of their loved ones status, regardless of distance.This proof of market project will enable us to to undertake in-depth market analysis to scopethe investment case and roadmap to bring to the market a product designed to enhance thelives of the ageing population & their families