SENS2
MEDICAL SENSING
THREE YEARS
"What if sensing technology could help people with dementia live independently at home?"
SENS2
MEDICAL SENSING
THREE YEARS
THE SITUATION
Most products designed for people living with dementia fail in real homes. Wearables get refused or forgotten. Multi-sensor kits feel intrusive and complicated. Cameras and microphones are rejected on privacy grounds.
When we surveyed the dementia community, 85% told us the same thing: they wanted something automatic, something that worked without them having to interact with it. Nothing on the market fit that need.
FOUR STAGES
01 | QUESTION FRAMING
An open question, not a spec.
We started with a brief that wasn’t a brief: could sensing technology meaningfully extend the time someone with dementia could live independently, while preserving their privacy and their dignity? Before any modelling, we needed to know what “automatic” had to mean in practice, what level of detail a family needed to act on something, and what the device would need to refuse to capture in order to be trusted.
02 | INVESTIGATION
Can radar replace a camera without acting like one?
Three years of physics modelling, prototype development and experimental validation. We landed on a radar-based sensing approach that captures only abstract patterns of movement in a home - no cameras, microphones, images, audio, identity or biometrics. The signal was rich enough to be useful. The data was poor enough to be trusted.
03 | PROTOTYPING
Building the tech and the trust behind it.
We crafted the sensor concept, the algorithm and the device architecture from the ground up. Each element had to work in a real clinical environment, in the hands of a non-specialist, at the bedside. We also identified the inventive elements that would support a patent application, so the work was protected as it took shape.
04 | ANSWERS
Here's how.
A validated sensing capability, protected by patents, with real-world evidence behind it. Other organisations were already asking for it before we’d finished proving it worked. The question that started this project became the studio that now answers questions like it.
VOICE FROM THE WORK
Dr Ed Garratt
Chief Executive, NHS SNEE ICB
THE ANSWER
A sensing system that lets people stay home longer - and lets the families around them know they’re alright.
Patent pending. Protected. Proven in real homes. SenS2 is now looking for the right partner to take it to the scale it deserves.The project that launched the studio.
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