Design and Development of Smart Airbag Suit for Elderly with Protection and Notification System
Sakthivel Sankaran, Arun Prasath Thiyagarajan, Athi Deepthi Kannan, Karishma Karnan, Soundharya Radha Krishnan · 2021
Human fall is the second leading cause of death by accidental or unintentional injury which leads to coma, paralysis, and brain trauma. The existing method has a hip protection airbag suit which prevents to get an injury in the trochanteric region and prevent to get fractures. The drawback of this methodology, it protects only the hip region of patients, without protecting important parts like the head, thoracic cavity. After a fall - related accident, senior patients mentally, emotionally week and getting `fear of repeated fall'. To rectify those problems, our innovation presents the use of an airbag suit with a certain sensor to protect the life of elders and also gives an alarm message to care-takers. After identifying hazardous slant, the micro controller must start a sign which can enact the engine driver to expand an airbag consciously positioned kind of a suit. The airbag garment is stretchable fabric that is made up of nylon or polyamide cloth filled with nitrogen or argon gas which will inflate in case of sudden fall, to avoid severe injury in the head, thoracic region, vertebrate column, and pelvic region. With help of tri-axis accelerometer sensor and through GSM the emergency notification sends to the care-taker.