The Development of Smart Cane Prototype for the Elderly Caring using IoT
International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering · 2020
Thailand is currently advanced in the age of the elderly, with many elderly people. Self-help, especially walking to various places of the elderly, therefore it is necessary to have a walking stick or cane as another kind of aid. The objective of this research is to develop the smart cane prototype that acts as tools and monitor the elderly by using IoT electronic devices to apply in the development. The developed smart cane consists of twenty-one features that evaluated in terms of user satisfaction, and the mobile application that supports this smart cane prototype was evaluated the effectiveness in the black box testing. As a result, the user satisfaction related to all smart cane features has an average mean of 4.80 and the standard deviation at 0.40. The result of the mobile application evaluated has the average meant at 4.92 and 4.88 for the elderly and the expert evaluation, respectively. It could be said that the developed smart cane prototype be a tool that helps to take care of the elderly in daily life at the highest level by using the internet of things.