The management of the home's physical plant is one major issue for improving the quality of life for an aging population.

This would allow caregivers to better tell if any changes have occurred to the cognitive abilities of an individual. It also could be used to help people recall where they were the last time they had possessed a lost object, such as the car keys.

Longer term, the interest will be in finding ways to handle the communications of vital information from the home to medical professionals that know what to do with the information. Say you have a network of nurses that care for an aging individual. There is a need for them to periodically connect, as well as a need for frequently sharing health-care information among medical staff, family, and friends.

As it progresses, we'll probably add other therapies for her management to keep her having a good quality of life for as long as I can. She jumps up and down off my couch, and her activity has not slowed down. She runs up and down the stairs like they're nothing.

SS8 earned the TL9000 award for our SC3100 Unified Communications Platform, ensuring that we meet the specific quality management and measurement requirements of tier one telecommunications service providers. This is a benchmark that validates our commitment to the tier one space, and has been driven by real customer applications to a standard that was created by service providers, for service providers. As we graduated from ISO 9000 in 1994 to ISO 9001 in 2000, our certification to TL9000 supports our goal of achieving 100% customer satisfaction.

The ultimate goal is to provide in 5 years a sound scientific basis for the management of the barrier islands here and also around the United States.