On October 4th, 2010, Gilles Schnepp, the Chairman and CEO of Legrand, and  Jean-Jacques Lozach, the Chairman of the Creuse district council, signed a  partnership agreement designed to contribute to helping elderly people continue  living in their own homes in enhanced conditions of comfort and safety.

Legrand will contribute to this aim in two ways, by providing training in the use  of home automation systems for the personnel of the Creuse district council as  well as technical assistance in the implementation of products such as, for  example, lighting paths*. The partnership will thus allow Legrand to demonstrate  its home systems expertise, reflecting its determination to propose innovative  solutions for enhanced comfort and safety for older people and more generally  solutions to compensate for loss of independence.

Besides this particular agreement, Legrand is committed through various  training programmes and European research projects such as Companionable  and Robots@Home. In all cases, the aim is to make it natural for people to stay  living at home, in enhanced conditions.

* A lighting path is made up of a series of motion sensors enabling automatic  control of lighting along predefined paths identified as being potentially  hazardous; this solution was a prize-winner at the 2010 Old Age Awards.