Elderly support system (device hardware development)
This project aims to develop an elderly support system to aid caregivers and family members in monitoring the well-being of an elderly at home, in elderly care centres or in hospitals. This support system consists of a wearable elderly tag which integrates several sensor modules together with a m...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68549 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This project aims to develop an elderly support system to aid caregivers and family
members in monitoring the well-being of an elderly at home, in elderly care centres or in
hospitals. This support system consists of a wearable elderly tag which integrates several
sensor modules together with a microcontroller integrated, low power system on chip (SoC).
This report describes the process of developing this elderly tag, including all the
considerations taken during the selection of the components, the routing of the printed circuit
board (PCB) and the programming of the tag’s functions and communication modes.
Achieving an acceptable tag size during the circuit and PCB designing process, variable
packet length communication was also used to effectively communicate between the elderly
tag and a receiver, where the received information can be sent and viewed on MATLAB for
further analysis or display to the user. The casing of the elderly tag was also printed using 3D
printing and it is capable of housing the developed elderly tag PCB to be strapped around the
wrist of the elderly. |
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