How home care solutions can relax the work life in care facilities

When considering if you should include window sensors in your home care solution, you probably first think about monitoring seniors living alone in their own homes. But window and door sensors can also be useful in intelligent solutions for care facilities like nursing homes, as a recent pilot project by a Nordic company shows.

Together with other sensors in a home care solution, window sensors can reduce the stress of caregivers, make their workday easier, and enable them to spend more time with patients.

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Reduce unnecessary manual tasks for caregivers

By installing a home care solution with an Entry Sensor 2 Pro on the doors of the residents’ rooms, the company was able to reduce unnecessary interruptions and disturbances of the resident’s life, enable better care for patients and relieve stress of caregivers. Thanks to the sensors, the time spent by caregivers unnecessarily checking up on residents was reduced by 20%.

In most care facilities, caregivers’ time is scarce, and reducing unnecessary manual work can open up time slots in their schedule that can be used, for instance, for slowing down in a stressful workday or spending more time caring for the residents.

Get to know the Entry Sensor 2 Pro and the various use cases it offers.

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Simplify care with activity monitoring and digital emergency buttons

In addition to window and door sensors, care professionals and facilities can also benefit from other IoT devices like motion sensors, vibration detectors, or alarm buttons. By installing the Motion Sensor in different places around the facility, caregivers can monitor residents’ activities around the home and know which rooms are occupied at the time.

With the help of Vibration Sensors, caregivers can monitor patients’ sleep patterns and get an additional source of data indicating potential illnesses. By replacing analog emergency buttons with digital Panic Buttons, residents can easily call for help while installation and maintenance are simplified.

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Get your own home care solution with white label devices

If you are considering launching a home care solution but do not want to spend time and money developing hardware, you can base your home care solution on white label devices. This way, you are able to launch a solution quickly and can focus on your core competencies.

All of Onics’ white label devices are thoroughly tested, reliable, and secure products that fit perfectly with your home care solution. With the Squid.link gateway as the heart of your solution, you get a set of software development tools that simplify the app development process.

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