Remote care system for apartment building and remote monitoring apparatus used therein
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshiaki Tanaka, Masaru Yamaoka
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Abstract
A remote care system for an apartment building includes: a home electric appliance installed in a housing unit structuring an apartment building; a sensor that is provided in the home electric appliance and senses the behavior of a resident in the housing unit; and a remote monitoring apparatus that remotely controls the home electric appliance installed in each of a plurality of housing units based on sensing information transmitted from the sensor. This realizes implementation and operation of a remote care system for an apartment building using a major appliance used in ordinary households.
Claims15
A remote care system for an apartment building, the remote care system comprising:
- a home electric appliance installed in a housing unit structured in the apartment building;
- a sensor that is provided in the home electric appliance and adapted to sense conditions on a resident of the housing unit and output sensing information indicative of the conditions sensed on the resident, wherein the sensing information comprises motion information indicative of movement of the resident in the housing unit;
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- a remote monitoring apparatus that is provided remote from the housing unit, and adapted to receive the sensing information from the sensor and remotely control the home electric appliance based on the received sensing information,
- the remote monitoring apparatus further adapted to monitor the motion information from the sensor and upon a determination that the motion information indicates an alerting condition that the resident is inactive for a predetermined time, alert an operator of the remote monitoring apparatus of inactivity of the resident,
- wherein the remote monitoring apparatus is stored with attribute information on the resident comprising a care level thereof, and the predetermined time is shorter for a resident with a higher care level.
A remote monitoring apparatus used in a remote care system for an apartment building comprising multiple housing units therein, comprising:
- an input unit adapted to receive sensing information from a sensor provided in a home electric appliance installed in a housing unit, the sensing information being indicative of conditions on a resident of the housing unit and comprising motion information indicative of movement of the resident in the housing unit;
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- a controller adapted to remotely control the home electric appliance based on the received sensing information, the controller further adapted to monitor the motion information and upon determination that the motion information indicates an alerting condition that the resident is inactive for a predetermined time, alert an operator of the remote monitoring apparatus of inactivity of the resident,
- wherein the controller is stored with attribute information on the resident comprising a care level thereof, and the predetermined time is shorter for a resident with a higher care level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.