Nice/Nortek Control, ELAN, & BRAVAS Austin Create Custom Smart Home for Wounded Veteran

Nice/Nortek Control has completed a project crafted to simplify life’s daily tasks and create a specially adapted smart home for one of America’s wounded heroes through the Gary Sinise Foundation’s R.I.S.E. (Restoring Independence Supporting Empowerment) Program. With the help of ELAN control systems and dealer BRAVAS Austin, retired U.S. Army Staff Sergeant (SSG) Jason Tabansky can now focus on what matters most in his life – spending more time with his wife with hopes of starting a family.

Tabansky enlisted in the U.S. Army as a 67U, CH-47 Chinook helicopter repairer in 2000. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, he deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and later, to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He helped monitor the quality and assisted in maintaining the helicopters. In 2015, Tabansky was performing a routine Chinook helicopter demonstration in London when he slipped and fell while climbing down the aircraft, injuring his right shoulder. After several visits to the ER, he was sent away with medication to dull the pain. Days later, his body began going numb and he became paralyzed from the chest down, including both of his hands.