2012 was by many accounts a banner year for technology, one in which Apple became the most valuable company in history in part for its decades-long effort to bring advances in computing into more and more American homes.
Investment experts are optimistic about 2013 for Apple, and the consumer technology market as a whole, in part because they see one of the biggest pieces of the personal technology puzzle as being still unfulfilled by market solutions.
According to a roundtable discussion published by The Motley Fool, an investment information provider that focuses on stock and personal finance, 2013 will be the year when connected homes finally become mainstream.
"You've always seen these ideas. 'The dishwasher is connected to the Internet. The oven is connected to the Internet,'" Eric Bleeker, who covers telecom and IT topics for the source, said in the piece. "It was always a dumb idea because there was never really a central control. They always had terrible user interfaces."
This is all changing now that tablets and mobile phones have presented a solution, allowing a number of a home's functions to be controlled through one easy-to-use device. And while the news source didn't go into detail about the potential effect of this change on the healthcare industry, many predict this will cause a marked shift toward at-home care.
At Independa, we're focusing our efforts on using this technology to provide independent living aids and support for care givers and receivers. For example, our Angela software allows these individuals to receive medical reminder calls right from their TVs. Our ecosystem of third-party sensors further enable caregivers to obtain instant alerts in the event that an emergency – such as a house flooding or break-in – may have occurred.
To learn more about our wide range of wireless care technologies and how our solutions can help the elderly individuals in your facility age in comfort, call our friendly, knowledgeable representatives at 1-800-815-7829.
