Design and development of personal assistive device for elderly

摘要

Smart home technology for aging people is coming up increasingly as elderly people require living at home with assistive devices. With aging comes associated health problems like mobility impairment and memory related diseases like amnesia, Alzheimer's, etc., They face difficulty in keeping their essential things safely and keeping up schedules. The work aims to develop an assistive device to elderly people and people with memory disabilities to keep their essential things safely using smart health care system. The system maintains a list of objects/things necessary to be remembered at different occasions based on user preferences. This system is customizable and enables locating misplaced things using alarm signaling, reminds periodic and important schedules for the day using easy and effective user interface. The tracking range can be extended by integrating two or more Pi's to create a distributed environment. The system also reports the name of tablets given the image of the tablet sheet to overcome reading difficulties.