Many family today are made up of sandwich menage – a couple that is " sandwich " between their children and their parents , adjudicate to at the same time raise vernal children , take maintenance of aging parents and work full time . This is a unmanageable office , particularly when you add to it the possibleness of chronic conditions , like autism , diabetes and Alzheimer ’s in nestling and/or parents .

The Aware Home project integrates industrial design , architecture , psychology , health , engineering science , computers and assistive engineering to try tobuilda homethat can actually take forethought of its inhabitant . An Aware Home could monitor and track tyke ’s development for trends in their development and behavior , and it could monitor the respiration of a tike with bronchial asthma . The house could keep raceway of child ’s onward motion in various therapies with their parent or caregivers . The menage itself could really be a baby monitor ; it could go so far as to separate parents who is where at any give moment : for representative , who was raiding the fridge when they should have been in bed .

An aware home could be connected to smoke and carbon paper monoxide sensor and a security system of rules , and could call exigency services if necessary . It could also offer a digital message center to help everyone in the household keep up with each other ’s schedules . An awarehomecould save you sentence by helping you find your phone , your billfold or your paint . It might even be able to upload , tag and caption your characterization and videos on personal or social - networking World Wide Web web site , saving you sentence that you could expend making memory with your family .

Sandwich menage have a lot of challenges ahead of them , many of which could be relieve by living in Aware Homes one day .