Title :
A mobile phone-based Safety Support System for wandering elderly persons
Author :
Ogawa, Hidekuni ; Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ; Maki, Hiromichi ; Sato, Haruhiko ; Caldwell, W. Morton
Author_Institution :
Department of Information and Intellectual Systems, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima 731-5193, Japan
Abstract :
A new safety support system has been developed to detect and transmit notification of a wandering elderly person´s location. The system employs a low transmitting power mobile phone (PHS) and a personal computer (PC). The PHS is carried with the elderly person as a pendant. The PHS location is identified within 100m from the receiving antenna ID. Therefore, the system can detect whether the wandering elderly person is in or out of their home. When the wandering elderly person is away from home, the system automatically informs the caregiver via voice mode and sends the wandering elderly person´s location map by e-mail.
Keywords :
Alzheimer; Mobile Phone; Support System; Wandering; wanderer´s location; Alzheimer´s disease; Dementia; Electronic mail; Internet; Microcomputers; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Receiving antennas; Safety; Senior citizens;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403932
