PRE2016 3 Groep10

Advanced Elderly Emergency System (A.E.E.S.)

Design team

Name	Student ID	Department
Steef Reijntjes	0944701	Electrical Engineering
Pieter van Loon	0861532	Software Science
Ken Hommen	0911594	Industrial Engineering
Man-Hing Wong	0944285	Electrical Engineering
Lennard Buijs	0959903	Mechanical Engineering
Bram Grooten	0885158	Applied Mathematics

Problem statement

Problem

In the Netherlands we have more and more elderly people. For them it can be more difficult to balance themselves when standing or walking, so it regularly happens that they fall. When they do, they often have trouble standing up. Also, they have a higher chance of injuries, with hip fractures being the most common. The problem especially arises if these elderly are severely injured by a fall, and therefore can't stand up to reach for help.

Solution

A device that should be worn by, mostly, elderly that detects when one has fallen. It can automatically send a warning to ‘ICE’-persons or even call 112. Automatically sending its location along with it. A microphone and camera can in this case be used to observe the situation even faster. By connecting the device to the internet, this all can be made possible even faster. Also the device can ‘ask’ questions to the owner in case of emergency, which can be answered by simply talking back.

Requirements

• Wearable
  • Belt clip
  • Wrist band
  • Necklace
• Speech recognition
• Speak to the user
• GPS to track location
• Internet and phone connections
  • Call emergency services
  • Contact next of kin
  • Share location with next of kin
• Sensors
  • Accelerometer, barometer and gyroscope to detect falling
  • Air quality measuring sensor
• Button to manually trigger emergency state

Research

State of the art

Currently there a few different wearable emergency devices for elderly. All of them have slightly different functions. Firstly, there is the Medical Guardian.

Objectives

To effectively and succesfully end this project, a list of objectives is created to ensure weekly improvements, which will help in obtaining a final product. List of objectives:

• Research state-of-the-art technology
• Establish list of requirements
• Design the system that follows every requirement
• Create a final presentation, explaining our design

USE Aspects

The user of the Advanced Elderly Emergency System are the elderly. Since the number of elderly is increasing, more elderly people will need a way of calling for help when an emergency occurs. Nowadays an elder may have an arm wrist or necklace which has a button to call for help. However, in the future, there will be too many elderly for the number of nurses or doctors. By asking questions, the doctor's job will be easier, which means it will also help the enterprise.

Literature

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Urls

Medical guardian emergency system

https://www.medicalguardian.com/product/premium-guardian

The Best Medical Alert Systems of 2017

http://www.toptenreviews.com/health/senior-care/best-medical-alert-systems/

Speech recognition library

http://arjo129.github.io/uSpeech/

Appendices

This section gives an overview of the progression and planning of our design project. This mainly concerns organizational as well as technical tasks, decisions and ideas that have been performed within our project environment to maintain a successfull and appropriate end result. Explanations on how certain decisions has been made by our design team can be found in the following, relevant sections:

• Appendix A - Project progress
• Appendix B - Planning