| Description |
The goal of the project is to design and build a system that assists elderly people in their everyday life. The features should include:
- Reminder about important events, dates, appointments, time to take medication, etc.
- Home/hospital/etc. locator with simple and clear step-by step routing instructions.
- Smart health monitor and logger (body temperature, heart rate, etc.). Upload the logged data to a PC and send to the doctor.
- Remote operation:
1. location of the person;
2. two-way communication;
3. reading his/her health parameters;
4. managing his/her "reminder" (view, add, edit, delete events).
- Send instant alert to relatives (doctor) if:
1. the health status is off-norm;
2. accident (ex.: suspected fall)
More functions could be added after consulting with the specialists in the aged care and safety. The using of gadget should be intuitive for a non-technical person, and require no or minimal training.
Examples of use:
- A person forgot the way home: "Guide-me-home" function.
- A person has a doctor appointment. Reminder, that counts the travelling time and gives travelling instructions, if necessary.
- A person has to take a medication: time and medication location reminder.
- A person has a heart attack: emergency message to a caregiver, including the person's location.
- A person falls: emergency message to a caregiver and two-way hands-free (for the person) communications.
- A person leaves home at unusual time: reminder to the person, alert to the caregiver.
- The caregiver can establish two-way communication with the person.
- Logging and uploading to a PC health-related data, so the doctor can analyze the causes of health-related problems.
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