{"id":271,"date":"2013-08-15T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T02:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/?p=271"},"modified":"2013-08-15T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T02:35:41","slug":"flinders-engineers-enable-independent-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/2013\/08\/15\/flinders-engineers-enable-independent-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Flinders Engineers Enable Independent Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/files\/2013\/08\/Retrofit-project2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/files\/2013\/08\/Retrofit-project2-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2013\/08\/Retrofit-project2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2013\/08\/Retrofit-project2.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>South Australia&#8217;s ageing population and people with disabilities are one step closer to living with greater independence thanks to the work of electronic engineers from Flinders University.<\/p>\n<p>Officially launched on Tuesday (August 13), the Retrofitted Electronic Aids project demonstrates that a range of readily available electronic and electro-mechanical products can be fitted to an existing house or dwelling for less than $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>This demonstration project \u2013 undertaken by the <a href=\"http:\/\/mdpp.org.au\">Medical Device Partnering Program (MDPP)<\/a> at Flinders University \u2013 has shown that off-the-shelf products such as universal remote controls, intercoms and voice recognition technology can be easily controlled by a person living with a disability, providing greater quality of life and independence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the full story click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/mdpp\/news\/flinders-engineers-enable-independent-living.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To view the ABC TV news coverage, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FJSyBqMuAOs&amp;feature=c4-overview-vl&amp;list=PL19B5B9E422D3EA4C\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia&#8217;s ageing population and people with disabilities are one step closer to living with greater independence thanks to the work of electronic engineers from Flinders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}