“A smart carpet could be in your future as part of the soon-to-explode home health IT market, the National Academy of Sciences predicts.
In its new guide, “Consumer Health Information Technology in the Home,” the National Research Council of the National Academies says “high-tech devices that use complex networks of sensors and advanced appliances” are already being built for home environments. The example cited is a carpet embedded with sensors that can tell if someone’s gait is normal or whether the person is becoming unsteady.”
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John Pulley, NextGov, 20 July 2011
