Lively: Avoid the old man's life from normal track

Absrtact: According to the Science and technology blog TechCrunch reports, the United States currently about 11.3 million of the elderly living alone, although the United States to leave their children to live is a common phenomenon, but some problems have emerged, such as children can not immediately understand the living conditions of parents. Start-up public

According to technology blog TechCrunch, there are about 11.3 million elderly people living alone in the United States, although leaving their children in the U.S. is a common phenomenon, but some problems have emerged, such as children can not immediately understand the life of their parents. Start-ups lively to respond to such demands by developing a novel service that allows children to get to know their parents ' daily lives in real time.

For those who live separately from their parents, calling is a quick way to care for their parents and to learn about their parents ' situation. So the phone conversation with parents often need to pull out a list, you need to confirm whether they take medicine, diet is normal, there is no go out and so on. "You often need to identify a lot of things that will take up too much time and you can't talk to your parents about meaningful things and really understand their lives," he said. "David Glickman, chief operating officer of Lively, said." David Grickman

Lively can provide two separate Livelyhub and Livelygram services that allow families to connect more closely.

Livelyhub is the core service of lively company, can supervise the daily life of the old people, avoid the old people's life from normal track. Its core component is a host that looks like a wireless router, which connects 6 passive sensors that carry mobile technology. Livelyhub do not need users to purchase mobile data package, in fact, not even wireless network connection need, from this point of view Livelyhub a bit like Amazon Whispernet. Livelyhub is also very handy to use, and the sensors will automatically start collecting data as soon as you have access to the electricity. These sensors are housed in different locations at home, which must be where the user's parents or grandparents often go in their daily lives. For example, users can put sensors on the refrigerator door, kitchen cabinets, even medicine boxes or key buckles. After installation, these sensors can adapt and understand the daily life of the elderly.

There are also miniature accelerometers in each sensor, which feed back to the host the old man's information, such as the switch on the refrigerator door, and the sensor does not have a positioning function and does not give feedback about the user's location. If the host finds that one day the behavior of the old person is different from weekdays, it will send a warning to the child via the lively website or iphone application. Lively's warning interface is also very friendly and easy to use. If there is no problem, then you see a row of green smiley face, if there is a problem, such as the old man has not taken medicine, then the system will send an orange sad expression.

Lively a small scale test in 30 families in Florida State, and the user's test results were very satisfying. Grickman said: "We have been receiving feedback from users that this is the product they need." No one thought Livelyhub violated their privacy. ”

Livelygram is an add-on service that sends personalized three-fold cards to the elderly every two weeks, with content that children and other families want to share with the elderly. Users can also add some Twitter content or Instagram on their cards that they want the elderly to see.

Livelyhub and Livelygram Two services together with a package price of 149 U.S. dollars base fee and monthly rental fee of 19.95 U.S. dollars. In addition, Lively is currently seeking to raise 100,000 of billions of dollars through the public offering site Kickstarter.