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Safe & Sound T-Shirt for Monitoring Elderly and Physically Challenged Patients #1 : Intro

sakthi.1260

Hi guys, before I start I wanna confess "I'm not good with the writing stuffs" image

 

Monitoring Elderly and Disabled Patients is always been a challenge and watching them over when they are left alone is much more challenging.

 

Here's a short description of what we've planned to do.

 

We wanted to make something that could monitor them,when they are left alone...We wanted to do something else other than the usual health monitors.

 

So we decided to make a T-shirt to will all sensors to monitor the Patient's movements and vitals.

 

For normal vitals and movements nothing will happen, but just in case of some abnormal motions or change in vitals, the message relays to Rpi over Bluetooth, and camera connected to Rpi will send out a live feed along with the vitals to mobile of a care takers.

 

We also want to keep a Relay to switch ON lights just in case if its dark, embedded buttons in the T-shirt can be used manually by the patient to call for help.

 

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  • hey sakthi...

    here is my project video.... may be helpful to you...

  • in reply to jkutzsch

    Hey john, I still have no idea what I'm gonna do image,hopefully we'll do something, We'll either find a way or make one.

     

    Cheers,

    Sakthi

  • in reply to DAB

    Hi ,glad you are showing interest, I would also love to hear suggestions from you people image

     

    Cheers,

    Sakthi

  • Interesting, I will enjoy seeing this project as it progresses.  I had thought a little on something that would monitor physical levels such as temp, heart rate, etc... like you are doing but I wasn't sure how it could best be implemented on a user who may not be "reliable" for keeping sensors attached.  Items like the fingertip sensor would be impossible to keep on my children.  :-)

  • in reply to Workshopshed

    You could expand the idea further and use the same system to keep track of where the wearer is currently in the house.

     

    That way you can quickly locate the person if you need to provide medication or quickly locate them in a hurry.

     

    DAB