4. Ethical considerations

4.1 Acceptability of the technology

By 2020, people over the age of 75 will represent 10% of the French population, representing a crucial socio-medical and economic challenge for our society. NICTs will be represented by multiple communicating objects, taking information from the dependent person's immediate environment or from the external "cloud". These objects will generally be equipped with GPS, enabling them to be located if alarms are triggered. This last facility increases the chances of acceptability, as it allows the subject to move outside the apartment being monitored. The miniaturization of sensors, when it does not require invasive placement on deep tissues susceptible to inflammation, allergy or infection, allows the information-capturing object to be "forgotten" (necessary...