Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Keywords
Electronic Devices, Real Time Monitoring, Mental Disabilities, Children, Arduino® Platform
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3390/mi8100292
Abstract
There are a growing number of small children—as well as adults—with mental disabilities (including elderly citizens with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of age-related dementia) that are getting lost in rural and urban areas for various reasons. Establishing their location within the first 72 h is crucial because lost people are exposed to all kinds of adverse conditions and in the case of the elderly, this is further aggravated if prescribed medication is needed. Herein we describe a non-invasive, low-cost electronic device that operates constantly, keeping track of time, the geographical location and the identification of the subject using it. The prototype was made using commercial low-cost electronic components. This electronic device shows high connectivity in open and closed areas and identifies the geographical location of a lost subject. We freely provide the software and technical diagrams of the prototypes.
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Micromachines, v. 8, issue 10, art. 292
Scholar Commons Citation
Polanco, Carlos; Vazquez, Ignacio Islas; Martinez-Rivas, Adrian; Arias-Estrada, Miguel; Buhse, Thomas; Calva, Juan J.; Salinas, Carlos Aguilar; Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Claudia Pimentel; and Uversky, Vladimir N., "Real Time Monitoring of Children, and Adults with Mental Disabilities Using a Low-cost Non-invasive Electronic Device" (2017). Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications. 841.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mme_facpub/841
