Older adults increasingly want to age in their homes rather than nursing facilities.

老年人越来越希望在家中而不是在护理设施中变老。

A study by the American Association of Retired People (AARP) found that nearly 90% of people over 65 want to stay in their homes as they grow older. That means there is plenty of work for home care agencies whose staff assist the elderly primarily only during the day and possibly only for a few hours a day or a week..

。这意味着家庭护理机构有很多工作要做，他们的工作人员主要在白天帮助老年人，可能每天或每周只有几个小时。

Technology built by Sensi.AI claims to help home care agencies virtually monitor the well-being of the elderly around the clock.

。AI声称可以帮助家庭护理机构几乎全天候监测老年人的福祉。

Sensi was founded by Romi Gubes in 2019 after she discovered that there was abuse in her five-year-old daughter’s childcare facility. She immediately took her daughter out but started thinking about how to prevent similar situations from happening to kids and other vulnerable populations. Gubes, an engineer who always dreamt of starting her own company, had the idea of using audio AI to analyze what may be happening with people who can’t advocate for themselves.

2019年，罗米·古贝斯（RomiGubes）发现她五岁女儿的托儿机构存在虐待行为，成立了Sensi。她立即带女儿出去，但开始考虑如何防止类似情况发生在孩子和其他弱势群体身上。

She chose to work with audio because placing cameras in the home may feel intrusive to many people..

她选择使用音频，因为在家里放置摄像头可能会让许多人感到打扰。

She decided to apply this technology to home care agencies, a fast-growing area amid the large desire for aging in place.

她决定将这项技术应用于家庭护理机构，这是一个随着人们对老龄化的渴望而迅速发展的领域。

While various solutions help with emergencies, such as fall detection monitoring offered by OlaCare and SafelyYou, Gubes told TechCrunch that Sensi provides a more comprehensive overview of what’s going on. Not only can it help alert that the home care client has had an emergency like a fall, but also less urgent health problems like urinary tract infections, pneumonia and ‘good-to-know’ issues including change in activity levels, sentiment and lack of companionship, Gubes said..

虽然各种解决方案有助于应对紧急情况，例如OlaCare和SafelyYou提供的跌倒检测监测，但Gubes告诉TechCrunch，Sensi可以更全面地了解情况。Gubes说，它不仅可以帮助提醒家庭护理客户发生跌倒等紧急情况，还可以提醒他们尿路感染、肺炎等不太紧急的健康问题，以及活动水平变化、情绪和缺乏友谊等“好知道”的问题。

Sensi works by placing simple audio pods similar to Amazon’s Alexa throughout the person’s home, but generally in the bedroom, the bathroom and the living/kitchen area. The company’s AI then continuously collects the audio and analyzes it for any variations from the baseline.

Sensi的工作原理是在人们的家中放置类似亚马逊Alexa的简单音频播客，但通常放在卧室、浴室和起居/厨房区域。然后，该公司的人工智能不断收集音频，并分析其与基线的任何变化。

The company claims to identify over 100 insights about the well-being of seniors, and its clinical care team, which includes a social worker, an occupational therapist, nurses, and geriatrics clinicians, continuously develops new data points to track.

该公司声称，他们对老年人的福祉有100多个见解，其临床护理团队（包括社会工作者、职业治疗师、护士和老年临床医生）不断开发新的数据点进行跟踪。

According to Gubes, Sensi AI’s technology is in high demand. Over 80% of the largest homecare networks in the United States are using Sensi to help monitor their clients’ physical, emotional, and cognitive needs.

据Gubes称，Sensi AI的技术需求量很大。美国80%以上的最大家庭护理网络都在使用Sensi来帮助监控客户的身体、情感和认知需求。

The company’s revenue grew threefold year over year over the last three years, though Gubes wouldn’t share what the baseline was. She expects revenue to expand at the same pace over the next two years.

在过去的三年中，该公司的收入同比增长了三倍，尽管古贝斯不愿透露基线是多少。她预计未来两年收入将以同样的速度增长。

This fast growth has investors excited, too. On Wednesday, Sensi announced a $31 million Series B led by Insight Partners and Zeev Ventures, with participation from existing investors Entrée Capital, Flint Capital, Jibe Ventures, and Secret Chord Ventures. The round brings the company’s total funding to $53 million.   .

这种快速增长也让投资者感到兴奋。周三，Sensi宣布了由Insight Partners和Zeev Ventures牵头的价值3100万美元的B系列，现有投资者Entrée Capital、Flint Capital、Jibe Ventures和Secret Chord Ventures参与了该系列。这轮融资使该公司的总资金达到5300万美元。

As for how innovations in generative AI are helping Sensi, Gubes said that launching new languages is a breeze with LLMs. The company is currently serving home care facilities based in the US and Israel, where Gubi is from. But it plans to expand to other countries with the help of new funding and GenAI capabilities..

至于生成人工智能的创新如何帮助Sensi，古贝斯说，推出新语言对于法学硕士来说是轻而易举的事。该公司目前在美国和以色列为居家护理机构提供服务，Gubi来自以色列。但它计划在新资金和GenAI能力的帮助下扩展到其他国家。