Essence provides smart connected-living solutions for security, communication, and healthcare service providers. The system is especially well suited for smart homes and families. Essence's EverGuard is a graded, wireless alarm system that allows security providers to offer an intuitive home and business security experience to their customers with remote management and voice interactivity. Essence's WeR@Home is a complete home management solution that provides security monitoring companies with a platform to increase their service offerings with a cloud-based connected home platform. Customers can independently manage their home environment from anywhere and in real time. Essence's Care@Home is an enhanced telecare service platform that offers a seamless monitoring experience to enable seniors to live independently in their homes. This technology will be installed in facilities housing patients with COVID-19 across the Netherlands. The move will free up intensive care unit beds by providing a safe location for patients to recover from symptoms that do not require ongoing treatment, helping to take the strain off essential services in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.