Smart and wearable technology approach for elderly monitoring in nursing home
Kambey Elisabet Ansefine, Muzakki, Sanudin, Erwin Anggadjaja, Handri Santoso · 2017
In Indonesia, the amount of nursing home continues to increase due to aging population. There are some downsides in keeping the elderly stay in there, such unwanted incidents, reluctantness of sharing their conditions to the guardians, and also the old-fashioned means of monitoring the elderly. This paper proposes a smart wearable technology for monitoring the elderly in a nursing house. A wristband is used to monitor health conditions (heart rate and body temperature) as well as information such a sudden unwanted movement occurs. With several network-connected access points (APs), the wristband will provide information about the position of the elderly. This information will be displayed on the (website) server, so the guardians can monitoring each person continuously and evaluate a condition of the elderly easily. Based on our observation, our systems shows promising result that it can detect the occurrences, then send notifications and related information to the server for further actions taken by the guardians.