[Daily Progress, 2/2/09) Researchers at the University of Virginia are working on a home monitoring system that could one day allow people to live in their homes longer.

The system, created as part of a collaboration between UVa’s architecture and engineering schools to design and build eco-friendly modular homes, is gathering data in the first ecoMOD home in Charlottesville that was finished two years ago.

The prototype system reports data to researchers once a day, but Paxton Marshall, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, said the aim is to design a marketable system, and software, that reports information in real time.

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