Howz 4+
INTELESANT LTD
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Howz is a smart home system designed to help older people stay independent for longer. Howz works because a change in the daily routine of an older person can signal a change in health and well-being; and a change in daily routine can be detected from their home environment. Howz learns a person’s daily routine and uses this to detect short term anomalies and long term changes.
Howz works with smart meters in 5m UK homes or with the Howz Smart Home Kit (requires purchase.)
The Howz app provides meaningful, easy to digest, live information about daily routine direct to your phone.
With Howz you can:
* see activity levels over the last 7 days
* see how long since the last activity; and how you can wait before getting an alert
* get notifications for low activity, late start to the day, up in the night, unexpected activity when away from home
* with the Howz Smart Home lit get notifications for doors, temperature levels
For use with a smart meter download the app and it will take you through the process.
The Home Care Kit is purchased through www.howz.com. Once you have received your kit use the app to create an account and it will take you through the simple steps to register your Kit, set up your subscription and then start viewing your timeline. Alerts are sent via push notification if a change in normal routine is detected. As soon as Howz has learned your routine (usually after 7 days) we will let you know the alert settings that have been applied to your site.
All information is stored in a secure data centre within the UK, EEA or US area under security shield in line with GDPR. We do not share your information without your permission.
What’s New
Version 6.17
General bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Howz has kept my Mum safe!
This has been a great app to help protect and keep my mother safe. We installed Howz about two years ago when we became increasingly concerned about her worsening dementia. The app has been able to alert us when she opened her front door, and also to monitor how disturbed, or otherwise, she has been through the night. In combination with video recording Howz provides activity times to check via video what happened. Howz has allowed us an extra year of keeping Mum on her own home. It's been a great help to support a great quality of life for her.
Would not open after the latest update but now fixed
An update that was supposed to provide an urgent fix to something that had not bothered me changed this from an app that used to work to one that will not open at all! Since the purpose is for me to be able to keep an eye on my 92 year old mother this was really not good.
However this was fixed quite in the next release (I had to uninstall and reinstall to get it to work) and I did get a reply from the developers to tell me this, which was a good recovery.
Otherwise I have found this app genuinely useful in reassuring me about my Mum’s welfare. That was why I was unhappy to lose it. We got it as part of an NHS trial about using technology to help people with dementia stay in their own homes which I think is very promising.
Developer Response ,
We apologise that we have had issues with recent iOS app releases. There is an update available now that should resolve all access issues. In the event of app problems, https://my.howz.com is always available for you view your data. Please contact us if you are still experiencing any problems via info@howz.com or by phone during office hours on 01612265353.
Howz - looks after my mum
Don’t let the App problems of the last few days put you off. My family have used this for two years as part of the EDF trial. The app and in-home hardware works fine, to best of my knowledge three glitchy days in that time.
The family can see what my 82yr old mum is up to from anywhere; know when she is in or out, know when she is up in the night; know when she unexpectedly goes out, track her normal activity patterns.
Every developer makes mistakes don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
App Privacy
The developer, INTELESANT LTD, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- INTELESANT LTD
- Size
- 44.3 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.2 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.2 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.2 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Finnish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Intelesant Ltd
- Price
- Free