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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2020.24.1.100

Implementation of Smart Shoes for Dementia Patients using Embedded Board and Low Power Wide Area Technology  

Lee, Sung-Jin (Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-Eui University)
Choi, Jun-Hyeong (Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-Eui University)
Seo, Chang-Sung (SCT Corporation)
Park, Byung-Kwon (Department Management Information System, Dong-A University)
Choi, Byeong-Yoon (Department of Computer Engineering, Dong-Eui University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.24, no.1, 2020 , pp. 100-106 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper smart shoes for dementia care using embedded boards and Low Power Wide Area technology and their application software are implemented. The communication board composed of Cortex-M3 board and LoRa module is embedded into groove made in outsole of smart shoes. Including the mold, the shoe outsole was manufactured by hand. By using application software and embedded board, caregiver can track the position of dementia patient using GPS and LoRa network. The location tracking and data transmission operations of smart shoes have been successfully verified in the outdoor environment. The smart shoes of this paper are applicable to a safety device to prevent the disappearance of demented patients through results of experiments and if bigdata is collected and analyzed by deep-learning, it may be helpful to analyze the predictive path of dementia patients or the pattern of dementia.
Keywords
Low Power Wide Area; Smart Shoes; Internet of small things; Wireless network; Dementia care;
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