Product Review: Honeywell HomMed’s Mobile PERS Lets People Carry Safety Net With Them by Audrey Kinsella LifeStream™ MobileHelp® is a package of products and services for tracking and managing clients’ activities on an as-needed basis. Like Great Call’s 5Star Urgent Response™ system, now being incorporated into Independa, Inc.’s Artemis™ wireless monitoring ecosystem (see “Safe at […]

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One thoughtless moment, one normally careful driver, one urgent text message, one quick reply…at 65 miles per hour. Car crash to lawsuit to bankruptcy, not for the driver but for his employer. Yes, there was a policy but it wasn’t enough. If only there were some technology to keep employees from texting while driving. We finally found one.

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by Audrey Kinsella Jonathan Schwartz is a former President and CEO of Sun MicroSystems. Kian Saneii is a computer engineer from San Diego. Though not acquainted with each other, both are members of The Sandwich Generation, people with busy careers, children to raise and elderly parents to worry about. Both responded independently to the triple […]

Product review by Audrey Kinsella   This week, we profile another entry in our series on the rise of online tools for adult children to track daily activities of elderly parents living independently in their own homes. Using a combination of Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS), wireless motion detectors and other sensors, SimplyHome (Asheville, NC) […]