Smart Homes Made Simple Project
SunKirb partners with Pennsylvania Adaptive Technology Foundation
to educate about Smart Homes
SMART HOMES MADE SIMPLE is a project that is designed to raise awareness about how people with disabilities can gain control over their environment and live safely and more independently in their own homes using generic smart home technology.
Smart Homes Made Simple is a project of Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation (PATF). PATF provides education and financing opportunities for people with disabilities and older Pennsylvanians, helping them to acquire assistive technology devices and services that improve the quality of their lives.
Click here to learn more about the project smarthomesmadesimple.org/
Learn more about PATF at www.patf.us.
Smart Homes Made Simple is a project of Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation (PATF). PATF provides education and financing opportunities for people with disabilities and older Pennsylvanians, helping them to acquire assistive technology devices and services that improve the quality of their lives.
Click here to learn more about the project smarthomesmadesimple.org/
Learn more about PATF at www.patf.us.
AboutPennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation (PATF), Pennsylvania’s Alternative Financing Program under the federal Assistive Technology Act, is the lead on this project, working with a consumer-controlled Advisory Committee. PATF collaborates with a technology consultant, Kirby Smith of SunKirb Ideas, to fulfill many of the required activities of the Generic Technology project. PATF is a consumer-directed, statewide organization that provides education and low- and no-interest loans for AT. PATF helps Pennsylvanians of all disability diagnoses, health conditions, ages, and incomes.
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TargetThe target groups for this project are individuals with developmental disabilities who have significant support needs and who are transitioning to the community, as well as young adults who are moving into a home of their own. The project focuses on enabling these individuals to live independently in smart homes customized with generic smart AT (assistive technology). This project directly serves individuals who are low-income and who live in Southeast PA, primarily Philadelphia. However, the information that is gathered by the Advisory Committee and learned from the consulting partner’s installs of 20 new smart homes each year will be disseminated throughout the Commonwealth.
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The Advisory CommitteeTo carry out this project, PATF has assembled a consumer-controlled Advisory Committee primarily comprised of people living with disabilities who have used home automation/smart home technology, PATF staff members, consultants and technology companies. The goal is to learn about this technology and spread knowledge to those who can benefit from it.
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