AAL at the ‘New Home’ project
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Fact Check
Country
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Location
Mokrá
Construction year
2022
Loxone Partner
Challenge
The ‘New Home’ project in Czechia is a great example of family-type housing for adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It responds to the individual needs of the residents, facilitates the work of staff and ensures energy-efficient operation. All of this was helped by the project’s Loxone smart system, which provides the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) features. The installation here was done by Smarteon Systems – a Loxone Flagship Partner in Czechia.Solution
The mission of ‘New Home‘ is to provide the residents with autism with an as independent life as possible. Allowing them to have freedom, and be able to care for themselves and their household (with the necessary level of support as and when they need it). This is helped by: Door & Window Contacts, automatic lighting, automatic blinds, intelligent audio, Water Sensors, Button Air, and more.The ‘New Home’ has a team of 14 care assistants, which allows the residents to have freedom but also ensures their safety. The care assistants don’t have to be on edge and alert 24/7 and check on residents constantly because of the Loxone AAL system that has been installed here as it will notify them if they are needed. For example, they don’t have to check in the rooms at night, as if the occupancy sensor detects more than 15 seconds of movement in one, the night care assistant will be notified. All of these AAL systems, powered by Loxone, eliminate a variety of challenging situations.
The ‘New Home’ team can keep track of what is going on in the house through one mobile app, no matter where they are. It also records employee attendance through the access system – based on information from the NFC Code Touch keypad at the entrance – through the workers presenting their NFC key fob when arriving.
Raising funds for such projects, like the ‘New Home’, is not an easy task. However, it is often a bit easier to raise initial funds for the start-up investment versus subsequent ongoing operational costs. While Loxone has meant that the ‘New Home’ has made a slightly higher initial investment, this investment will pay for itself within the first year of operation at the reduced operational cost because of the Loxone system. But how?
Through Intelligent Energy Management – the Loxone App provides visualisation of PV production, energy consumption and energy flows in the building, through statistics and graphs. The system monitors appliances and can trigger them based on energy priorities and current solar PV production.
Saving on wages – With the Loxone system, the home now only needs one care assistant for the night shifts thanks to the technology taking tasks off the staff's hands. This saves hundreds of thousands of crowns per year on wages.
Loxone allows you to change the settings of the home according to the needs of residents and staff. A single system can thus provide the community service not only with the necessary functions of assisted living, but also replace other single-purpose systems and applications that would need to be purchased. This needs to be taken into account already in the design phase.
Martina LintnerováSmarteon Systems
