Abstract
Mobile phones have made significant improvements from providing voice communications to advanced features such as camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, SMS, voice recognition, Internet surfing, and touch screen. This paper presents an enterprise mobile tracking and reminder system (MAE) that enables the elderly to have a better elder-care experience. The high-level architecture and major software algorithms especially the tracking in Android phones and SMS functions in server are described. The analysis of data captured and performance study of the server are discussed. In order to show the effectiveness of MAE, a pilot test was carried out with a retirement village in Singapore and the feedback from the elderly was evaluated. Generally, most comments received from the elderly were positive.
Highlights
Today mobile phones have advanced from providing voice calls to many built-in functions like touch screen, Wi-Fi capability, camera, speech to text and vice-versa, Gobal Positioning System (GPS), Accelerometer and other features
In the area of tracking, the study of power consumption in smart phones was studied [1,2], GPS information was extracted in Nokia N95 [3], social networking applications were studied in [4,5,6,7], features of Android for location-based function was reported in [8], [9] investigated the human behavior for location-based services, using location-based services in city maps was published [10], and middleware development for location-aware was published in [11]
We propose the Mobile Assistance for Elderly (MAE) system with the aim to utilize the rapid growth of smart phones and technologies so that a better elderly experienced is achieved through mobilebased platform
Summary
Today mobile phones have advanced from providing voice calls to many built-in functions like touch screen, Wi-Fi capability, camera, speech to text and vice-versa, Gobal Positioning System (GPS), Accelerometer and other features. We propose the Mobile Assistance for Elderly (MAE) system with the aim to utilize the rapid growth of smart phones and technologies so that a better elderly experienced is achieved through mobilebased platform. This system leverages on some of the available telecommunication technologies like GPS and Short Message Service (SMS) to help the elderly and their caregivers stay in constant engagement while allowing the elderly to lead a more independent and mobile life as they stay active socially.
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