AgeSpan, a senior Internet enabling solution for seniors in the United States and Canada, recently unveiled their granny camera solution for combating nursing home abuse. Working on this solution for the past four years, AgeSpan had to overcome both the pros and cons associated with installing cameras in assisted living centers, elderly homes, and nursing homes. Complicated maintenance, high costs, and infringement of privacy were three of the main obstacles that groups against camera installations in nursing homes repeated over and over again. You can see a live demo on the company’s website at http://www.agespan.com/ and clicking on the professor in the lower right hand corner of the page.
With today’s advanced technology, complemented by AgeSpan’s capability to engineer, furnish, and install the customer’s requested configuration, these negatives are turning into positives. Craig German, an AgeSpan representative, said: « The latest camera technology now allows the end-user to see in low- to no-light conditions allowing for nighttime viewing, much like we’ve seen in pictures sent to us by CNN of the Iraqi War. In addition, this same camera can now take a picture at a prescribed time and e-mail it to any responsible party so that they can even see it on the new cell phones that companies are making now. With its (the camera) fast frame rates you don’t get those robotic-like video pictures anymore that web cameras provide. »
AgeSpan, a Sarasota, Florida-based company, is poised to offer their « cam if you can » monitoring solutions to nursing homes, nursing home residents, assisted living centers, assisted living center residents, marinas, warehouses, and private individuals for watching their vacation homes, pets, or kids at daycare.
