Development of System to Detect Dying Alone for Indigent
Moeko Konomi, Fumiaki Ehara, Kazuo Haruyama, Yuhki Kitazono · 2014
In Japan, the number of aged single persons who are found dead late has been increasing year after year. To prevent that, they and their family can use the system which sends a notice to the family's smartphone with the internet at present. However, if the people mentioned above is single and indigent, they can’t use that system because low-income or solitude. So, we developed the system to detect dying alone for indigent as well as related apparatus. Our system can send a notice to the caretaker or administrative organ without the internet. This system has a parent device and some children devices. Caretakers have a parent device, then users each have a child device. It is configured by some microcomputer, passive infrared pyroelectric sensor, as many "X-Bee module" and so little energy. The system is as follows: First, users attach a child device to the lavatory. When people go to there, this system gets time. Next, the child device sends information to the parent device without the internet connection by X-Bee module. This merit is simple Installation and low price. From this, even though old people can’t use system with the internet from indigent, caretakers use our system for such people and prevent problems easily.