🛜 RouterSense: Passive, In-Home Health Monitoring for Older Adults

Why Choose RouterSense?

• 👂Non-Invasive: RouterSense is completely passive, constantly listening to your home network traffic to monitor human activities, so no cameras, wearables, or invasive hardware are required.
• 🕒Always-On Monitoring: This plug-and-play, connect-and-forget system is designed to continuously capture behavior patterns, providing a complete view of daily activities over months and even years.
• 🔐Privacy-Preserving: With advanced federated learning, RouterSense processes data locally, keeping sensitive information secure within your home network.

How It Works

• ⚙️Easy Setup: RouterSense is installed on a small, pre-configured Raspberry Pi device connected to your router (or run in on your existing PC or Mac). Simply plug it in, and it starts working—no technical expertise needed.
• 📊Continuous Monitoring: By analyzing patterns in encrypted IP network traffic, RouterSense identifies and tracks activities such as leaving and returning home, sleeping and awake times, screen usage (e.g., app/website type, duration, etc), patterns of visitors, and any anomalous events.
• 🚨Health Insights for Early Intervention: RouterSense establishes activity baselines, then flags any deviations that could be early markers of health issues, alerting caregivers to changes in patterns.

Who Can Benefit?

• 👴Older Adults: Especially beneficial for those who prefer non-intrusive monitoring.
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Family Members & Caregivers: Provides peace of mind by offering remote insights without disrupting daily routines.
• 👩‍⚕️Healthcare Providers: Enables a proactive approach to patient monitoring and chronic condition management.

Our Mission

RouterSense aims to bridge the gap in remote health monitoring by providing low-cost, accessible, equitable, private, and effective tools for aging populations. With RouterSense, we strive to enhance the quality of life and equity of care for older adults and simplify the role of caregivers through early health detection and behavioral insights.

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