Tech / Tools

Smart Locks turn the smartphone into a key. This allows people with disabilities to control access for doctors and nursing staff themselves. However, this also results in security risks. An expert gives tips on safe selection and use.

Heating and cooling buildings is essential for older people. What they need to bear in mind with component activation - and why it is particularly energy-saving.

In view of global warming, heat protection for senior citizens is a major issue. We use Masdar City/Abu Dhabi as an example of the construction tricks we can learn from heat regions.

Rapid advances in technology will transform social life. The focus lies on humanoid robots.

Günther Ohland is an expert and journalist for SmartHome, as well as a founding member of the SmartHome Initiative Germany. In our interview he addresses the social aspects of smart technologies and the development toward a customer market.

In view of the shortage of nursing staff, AI-supported assistance systems for the home are becoming increasingly urgent. In Germany alone, there will be a shortage of over 3 million homes suitable for the elderly and over 600,000 care workers...

Affordable housing is becoming a scarce commodity, the housing market is empty. Many new buildings - including those for care - are modular. We take a look at what this construction method can do.