SPC, a consumer electronics brand, returns to the Barcelona Mobile World Congress with a fresh digital project centered on active and healthy aging. A dedicated space within the Spain Pavilion highlights SPC among roughly 45 technology brands showcasing Spain’s innovation to a global audience.
From the start, the company has placed senior citizens at the heart of its strategy, delivering technologies tailored to their needs to help them stay connected with family and friends, enjoy hobbies, and maintain daily routines.
Today SPC offers a broad range of devices focused on health care, safety, and well-being for older adults, empowering independence and autonomy. This strategy resonates with families seeking reassurance. The lineup includes home and mobile devices designed specifically for seniors, such as the Gravity 3 4G Senior Edition tablet and Zeus 4G smartphones, which deliver a smooth user experience through a simplified interface, thoughtful design, and senior-friendly features.
Remote management
SPC unveils an innovative app that enables remote management of senior mobile devices from a caregiver’s smartphone, aiming to bridge the digital divide and support healthy, independent aging.
The app provides remote assistance for elderly users with non-intelligent phones, independent of external agents or medical intermediaries. Headquartered in Vitoria, SPC reinforces its commitment to seniors with products that reduce the digital gap and promote safe, active, and autonomous living. In Spain, SPC holds a leadership position in the senior segment, with about 40% of mobile phones sold under the SPC brand. The market moves roughly half a million mobile units annually in the country.
App features
The app is designed to simplify elder care. It installs on the caregiver’s phone and links with an SPC mobile, enabling shared access, configurable permissions, and remote care capabilities. It supports health, safety, and well-being for users with basic feature phones or smartphones, and its core functionalities include:
Access to full remote device configuration, allowing caregivers to adjust settings such as screen brightness, text size, and especially ringtone and notification volumes across calls, alerts, and speakerphone. The SOS button can be enabled or disabled so that the senior can quickly alert trusted contacts in emergencies.
Protection against spam and unknown contacts. Caregivers can view SMS and call logs, mark items as read, and add unwanted contacts to a blacklist.
Device location and the option to set safety geofences, with alerts if they are breached.
Option to send reminders to the senior user and to have caregivers receive alerts about movements and activity, including patterns of sedentary behavior or unusual inactivity on the phone.
Family members and other helpers can manage more than one device from a shared interface, enabling collaboration among multiple people who have the app installed on their own smartphones.
For the seniors at home
Coupled with SPC-designed products that emphasize simple usability and easy access, the app helps seniors gradually adopt technology and weave it into their routines, unlocking the benefits of digital life.
SPC Care will be available throughout 2024 alongside SPC Polaris, a senior-friendly mobile phone compatible with the new application.
— End of overview — (Source: SPC materials)