Acoustic monitoring is a process that involves the use of specialised technology to capture, record, and analyse sounds and noises in different environments. In the healthcare sector, acoustic monitoring can be used to monitor a resident during sleep, helping to diagnose conditions like sleep disorders, lung diseases through the analysis of breathing sounds and even to prevent falls.

Staff can benefit from acoustic monitoring in several ways, as it can enhance resident care, safety, and overall operational efficiency. For example, this technology can help to improve response times to falls, vocal distress, seizures, and other emergencies. Acoustic monitoring also reduces the amount of time spent making unnecessary in-room checks, giving staff more time to deliver direct, person-centred care to residents.

Residents can benefit from acoustic monitoring in several ways, especially from better sleep cycles. Due to the lack of disturbance from staff periodically checking in on them, residents sleep better through the night. Better nights mean better days and an improvement in overall health and wellbeing.

Residents also gain a sense of security from knowing that staff have eyes and ears in their rooms via the acoustic monitoring system and visual monitoring solutions. Staff will be ready to attend the room if a care intervention is needed, allowing them to respond quicky – reducing the amount of potential falls and the time it takes for assistance to arrive.