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http://dx.doi.org/10.9717/kmms.2017.20.8.1387

Smart Safety Hat for Elderly Pedestrians  

Ko, Jooyoung (Institute for Education Development, Andong National Univ)
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society / v.20, no.8, 2017 , pp. 1387-1394 More about this Journal
Abstract
As rate in an elderly population and expanding their range of activity rapidly increase, the demographics of the elderly population on a use of transportation also rise. Elderly pedestrians often find it difficult to react promptly to the traffic accidents as they are less perceptive of the dangers present under the situation. More than half of the elderly traffic accidents are elderly pedestrian accidents in road. Therefore, we design and implement smart safety hat for safety of elderly pedestrian. The smart safety hat binds stripe-shaped LED around a hat in order for a driver to perceive pedestrian easy and quickly. Features of smart safety hat include controlling the number of LEDs by using a light sensor and warning through vibration using a sound sensor. Also, we used Bluetooth to communicate with the smartphone to enable user customization of the light and numbers of LEDs.
Keywords
Elderly Safety; Eldery Pedestrians; Smart Clothing; Lilypad; Bluetooth; IoT;
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