‘3rings Smart Plug

我年迈的妈妈或爸爸今天还好吗？这是一个越来越多的家庭每天都在问的问题。在英国，65岁以上的人有1000万。对许多人来说，年龄浪潮的影响正变得越来越明显。家庭照顾年迈的亲人的压力越来越大，但繁忙的生活和距离并不总是有利于这种需求。“3ring智能插头”项目是一种评估将没有联网的老年亲属与他们的互联网家庭连接起来引入分布式家庭护理的潜力的方法。“3ring智能插头”由两个组件组成：-硬件设备，允许插入水壶或电视等家用电器，然后将其插入电源。当家用电器在智能插头上发出信号时，通过内置的GSM电路，3ring基于云的生态系统。-基于云的软件生态系统是一个事件监控系统，使用互联网和电信协议，如推送通知、网络、电子邮件、短信和电话，将活动或缺乏活动传达给定义的家人和朋友。接受和成功的关键是以年迈的亲属熟悉的方式引入技术，消除对技术的恐惧，同时提供一个生态系统，以便向能够上网的家庭交流活动。基本假设是，在老龄化的家庭中，不需要互联网。电力使用可以指示活动，像泡茶、看电视这样的活动可以发出妈妈起床的有效信号，不寻常的活动可以表明可能需要调查的区域。透过监测“活动”或缺乏“活动”，可将事件传达给家庭，让他们知道他们所爱的人的状况，而不论相距甚远。这个市场证明计划将使我们能够进行深入的市场分析，以涵盖投资案例和路线图，为市场带来旨在改善老龄人口及其家庭生活的产品。

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