Abstract

The growing population aging is a serious social problem in the world today. Accidental death at home is increasing because abnormal conditions can not be discovered in time, especially to the elderly who live alone. Besides, according to statistics, over 80 percent of the elderly need the service of home care in China. A health care information system for the elderly at home is developed to monitor the real–time state of the elderly remotely in this thesis. The system can show the current positions of the elderly in the house and judge whether they are in dangerous locations or have dangerous activities. In the case of emergency, the elderly can press the emergency button. The system also provides some help for the elderly’s daily life. The system offers the advantage for living at home more safely and more comfortably, and has better application prospect

Highlights

  • With the arrival of the aging society, more and more attention is drawn to the aging problems

  • According to statistics, over 85 percent of the elderly people wish to live in their own houses

  • Ļ Query statistics The function of the smartphone system includes: input the users’ base information, detect the falling, detect the press of the emergency button, remind the elderly to take medicines or go to hospital, and etc

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Summary

Introduction

With the arrival of the aging society, more and more attention is drawn to the aging problems. A new health care information system for the elderly at home has been developed to help the elderly people to maintain their independence and enhance their quality of life. The System is composed of a server with a database and a monitoring software, smartphones with RFID cards, RFID readers and GSM base stations, and etc. This system can monitor to judge whether the elderly are in dangerous locations or has dangerous activities. If the old person has a dangerous action, such as falling to the ground, the sensor in the smartphone can detect it and the smartphone sends an alarm to the monitoring center of the community.

System Configuration
Centroid localization algorithm based on RSSI
Realization of Positioning ķ Detect signals by the RFID readers
Monitor a fall and process the emergency button
System application
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