A mobile phone-based safety and life support system for elderly people

Author

Miyauchi, Kosuke ; Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ; Ogawa, Hidekuni ; Maki, Hiromichi ; Caldwell, W. Morton

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

3-6 Jan. 2005

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

84

Abstract

A mobile phone-based system has been developed to detect and transmit notification of elderly person daily-life emergency situations. The system employs a dual axis accelerometer, two low-power active filters, a low-power 8-bit single chip microcomputer, two mobile phones and a personal computer. The dual axis accelerometer measures body movements produced by respiration, posture changing, falling and activities. If the person´s respiration is paused for 3 minutes, or if they are in an inactive state for 1 minute after falling, or for 64 minutes without previously falling, then the system automatically sends the person´s location by e-mail. It also informs the patient´s family by voice, via the mobile phone, of the emergency situation.

Keywords

aberrations; accelerometers; active filters; emergency services; handicapped aids; microcomputers; mobile handsets; safety; body movement measurement; comatose state; dual axis accelerometer; elderly people; emergency situation; life support system; low-power active filter; mobile phone-based safety; notification transmission; Accelerometers; Microcomputers; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Motion measurement; Receiving antennas; Safety; Senior citizens; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2005. CCNC. 2005 Second IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8784-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2005.1405148

Filename

1405148