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We are doing a year long student team project on developing a home monitoring system for the elderly, and looking for input on what actual caregivers (in our case, children of elderly parents) would like to see in such a system.

We know a few things: people do not like to hang sensors/monitors from their necks (identifies them as incapable), may have trouble charging any wearables on their hands (forget, lose charger, ...), do not like intrusive monitoring (so, has to be passive), and would like to feel empowered to help themselves.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Suppose I could interface a 100 or 200 MHz processor + RAM + storage externally to a high-end smartphone (say via micro USB), and all in a tiny form factor, almost un-noticeable. What useful applications could I run with this weak co-processor? What continuous or periodic tasks can be offloaded to it?

The technologies described in the book are certainly not science fiction and well within our grasp at the present time, or achievable over the next decade. A question is how plausible is such an event scenario for the world we live in now, and the world of our children?

I am trying to decide between the Swopper and a variety of Hag models (Capisco, Futu, H04, ...).