Grant: Engage Grants Program

Established in 1979, the JG Group of Companies is an innovative group of companies that provides creative design, management, and construction services for many building projects. JG Group developed a vision of Intelligent Senior Independent Living Spaces (iSILS) that integrates technological innovations with the latest architectural design and building materials to create functional, independent and safe environments that allow seniors to stay in their homes for a longer period of time. Currently, a sensor technology based prototype has been designed and implemented. With this prototype, a senior resident's daily routine and living environment can be monitored. Related information is presented through a set of web interfaces. This information is expected to help others better assist the senior residents and is potentially useful to different groups of people including the senior residents themselves, informal caregivers (e.g., family members, close friends), formal caregivers such as medical service providers, first responders (e.g., 911 services), and facility managers like building manager or security monitoring company. This engage project aims at designing user interface for senior residents to interact with the sensor prototype, and a web interface for informal caregivers to monitor the senior residents' health conditions reflected from the sensor data.