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Acoustic monitoring

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Acoustic monitoring

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Digital Social Care (digitalsocialcare.org.uk)

Digital Social Care
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Acoustic monitoring, in a residential care context, consists of audio sensors that can pick up sounds that suggest someone might be having difficulties during the night. Staff are therefore alerted if they need to respond rather than routinely checking and disturbing people unnecessarily.

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