Have you looked at Home Assistant (HA) as your consolidating platform? I helped set up one in a nursery home with mmWave motion, temp, humidity, switches, electricity flow, etc. If they want to, they can control water faucets, sinks, flushing WC, ceiling fans, heat/cool, plugs and switches.

The beauty is that you just need to find a device with either existing comms "protocol" (e.g., RESTful APIs, MQTT, Zigbee, Z-Wave, BT, BLE, Metter, Wi-Fi) that HA understands, or get one of the many community solutions for others (e.g., LoRaWA, 433MHz, modbus).

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thgibbs 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No, I hadn’t. I appreciate the link! My mom is completely non technical (can barely use an iPad), but this could be a great thing to build on.

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WaitWaitWha 2 hours ago | parent [-]

https://www.home-assistant.io/

the interface can be set up on her phone, a tablet on a wall, and limiting things to giant buttons and displays is very easy for you.

And, you can monitor and be alerted near real time to issues of course.

	▲	thgibbs 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fantastic! I hope you just solved my issues!