Senior living & aged care
The bathroom as preventive infrastructure inside senior living and aged-care operators.
Gait velocity
Walking speed across the room. Frailty, sarcopenia, and falls-risk signal.
Postural sway
Centre-of-mass variation while standing. Balance and falls-risk signal.
Voiding frequency
Visit count and nocturia events. Sleep, prostate, and metabolic signal.
Nitrites (urine)
Bacterial reduction of urinary nitrate. Specific marker for gram-negative bacteriuria.
Load cell array
Strain-gauge load cells in the floor mat and seat for weight, weight distribution, balance, gait timing, and sit-to-stand dynamics.
Inertial sensors
Accelerometer and gyroscope arrays for body sway during standing, gait acceleration profile, and falls detection in the room.
Microphone array
Directional microphones in the bowl or rim capturing acoustic signatures of urinary flow, voiding patterns, and breath/cough sounds.
Urinalysis test strip
10-parameter reagent strip read at the seat. Captures pH, nitrites, leukocytes, glucose, blood, protein, ketones, urobilinogen, bilirubin, and specific gravity from each void.
Urine spectroscopy (optical / SERS)
Non-contact optical analysis of urine in the bowl or stream. Uses vis-NIR absorbance, fluorescence, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to fingerprint analytes without consumables. Calibrates against the same biochemistry strips read by urinalysis.
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How might we make the senior-living bathroom a preventive instrument, not a hazard?
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How might we tie operator economics to outcomes the bathroom now measures?
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How might we give residents and families a trust signal worth choosing on?
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