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Threshold’s Wi-Fi sensing plugs offer caregiver monitoring without cameras

Monitoring without adding an eye in the sky.

Threshold Care’s new Motion Wi-Fi Sensing Plugs can help caregivers monitor older adults, like aging parents, in a noninvasive way that maintains the privacy of everyone in the home. It was part of a motion-sensing security feature built into Linksys Velop routers a few years ago, and Signify also uses the tech for its Wiz lightbulbs that turn on when you enter a room — and off when you leave. Threshold’s website says it has other features in development, such as a “Circle of Care” due this month that manages shared access to the system and customizable notifications that it expects to deliver in November.

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