Objective
To develop a highly accurate positioning and location device to be used by elderly who suffer from dementia Various European organizations and university studies have stated that dementia sufferers should be able to live dignified lives for as long as possible. This includes the ability to leave the confinement of a room and to move freely and in privacy. The wish to grant the elderly freedom often conflicts with the obligation to provide them with safety because dementia sufferers often wander without the ability to return or alert caregivers. The device we envisage utilizes the users movement patterns as recorded by GPS and Dead reckoning DR systems to continuously learn how the user acts and behaves and combines this information with internal mapping to establish safe zones and pattern recognition. This will enable the device to recognize if the wearer is wandering or performing usual daily tasks. This is made possible through the device s learning capability.
The safe zones are further used to determine the energy state of the device allowing it to be almost completely powered down during stays in completely Ssafe areas. If the user is wandering the device s GPRS communication capability will alert emergency services. To achieve this we need to develop an internal sensor based dead reckoning DR that can differentiate local and global acceleration effects which will be capable of positioning the user in areas where GPS signals are unavailable. A device internal neural network with the capability to observe and learn patterns in the way the user behaves. In order to predict if the user is engaged in wandering and to control the devices power states thus reducing power consumption. Furthermore the device incorporates a GPRS subsystem that can be used to alert emergency services and to remotely request the location of the device. The use of DR enables the device to detect if the wearer suffers from a fall in which case it will alert emergency...
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology dementia
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence pattern recognition
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence computational intelligence
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FP6-2004-SME-COOP
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HINNERUP
Denmark
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