Less movement and non-movement matter. The Washington Post ran an article recently about GreatCall's partnership with an AI company so that patterns and changes in behavior could be reported to family members from its wearable PERS device. Of course, tracking and reporting about changes from baselines -- that's nothing new for sensor-based home monitoring systems. But it is a surprisingly big deal in the PERS industry -- where even those who supported pattern-detecting big ideas dropped them like a hot rock -- in favor of the transactional PERS world -- press the button and someone will come. The most radical changes in that industry over five years, fall detection and GPS tracking have still been transactional -- Mrs. Smith, we are responding, are you okay? -- versus, I'm Mrs. Smith's device, and based on her behavior changes, she is not okay.
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