Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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| 6 | Elderly Homes Health Tracking System |
Aishee Mondal Jeep Kaewla Sanjana Pingali |
Akshatkumar Sanatbhai Sanghvi | design_document4.pdf final_paper2.pdf other1.pdf photo2.jpg photo3.jpg presentation1.pptx proposal2.pdf video |
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| # Elderly Homes Health Tracking System Team Members: - Aishee Mondal (aisheem2) - Jeep Kaewla (ckaewla2) - Sanjana Pingali (pingali4) # Problem Many elderly persons may live in elderly homes or retirement homes and have many health related problems. It might be difficult for the staff to be able to keep track of the health of all the individuals and ensure that they are able to keep performing their daily routine without additional assistance. It might be hard for them to track problems immediately due to difficulty communicating and the caretakers would not know when their health is deteriorating until their condition becomes very serious. In elderly homes or retirement centers, it might be hard to keep track of a number of elderly patients, especially when the technology like Apple Watches or Fitbits are not intuitive for older people or customized to their needs and are too expensive. It is not feasible to ask the staff to monitor each individualized fitbit and track it separately without a more centralized system. # Solution Describe your design at a high-level, how it solves the problem, and introduce the subsystems of your project. In this situation, a cost effective device that keeps track of various health data such as heart rate, temperature, step counts, gps to track where they are, sleep tracking and their daily habits like how many times they visit the bathroom and the duration of time they are in the bathroom, and if there are any irregularities can be a good indicator of their health. Our web application would allow the elderly home caretakers to monitor multiple elderly people at once. A notification would be sent when there is an irregular/ critical heart rate/ breathing activity for a particular person. We could also potentially store past health data points to a database and monitor for any irregularities, or this can be used by doctors during checkups. The subsystems are the health sensors, emitter, WIFI enabled microcontroller, and our web application. # Solution Components ## Health Sensors We would have different sensors to measure the different health parameters and indicators. These sensors will be placed either on some kind of sleeve on their wrist (for heart rate measuring) or a belt on the stomach to get direct measurements. We are planning on implementing the following sensors: Temperature - NTC Thermistor by TE Connectivity Heart Rate and BPM - PulseSensor Sleep Tracking Sensor and Step Count : Accelerometer by BOSCH BMA400 GPS - PA1616D Infrared Detector - to detect infrared radiation by the specific device when it receives a signal from the emitter system Explain what the subsystem does. Explicitly list what sensors/components you will use in this subsystem. Include part numbers. ## Emitter Subsystem This subsystem allows us to keep track of the number of times the bathroom is used and the number of times the bathroom is used. The sleeve would have an infrared detector and the bathroom facility would have two sensors - one at the entrance outside and one inside the bathroom once they enter. Depending on which sensor is detected first, we can see if they are entering or leaving the bathroom and this can help us keep track of the number of times they used it and the length of duration that they used it. ## WIFI enabled microcontroller The various health sensors would send the health data over to the microcontroller. The microcontroller would then send these data to our database using HTTPs requests to our backend via the WIFI module. We assume that our devices would be used in elderly homes or retirement homes, so there would be WIFI available. ## Web Application This web application would enable the staff to monitor multiple elderly at once in one page. This application would be a full - stack web application, using MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node). We would design the database schema, front end, and backend. If there is an irregular activity, we would send out an alert. This page would be updated periodically close to real-time. # Criterion For Success Describe high-level goals that your project needs to achieve to be effective. These goals need to be clearly testable and not subjective. - Send out an alert on the web applications when the heart rate is below a certain threshold or temperature is not within acceptable range for healthy person - Able to measure the data from all the sensors and send it to the microcontroller and store in the database |
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