A Study of Dementia Patient Care Monitoring System Based on Indoor Location Using Bluetooth Beacon

Abstract

In this study, a dementia patient care monitoring system is suggested that uses a wearable type bluetooth beacon to prevent them from going missing. This system shows whether the patients stay within the manageable area and sends a warning message to their monitoring managers' or guardians' smart devices when they leave it. The feature of the system is that it provides the service based on indoor location that makes the beacon worn by dementia patients continuously transmit their location information to the managing server through the smart terminal installed indoors or in hospitals and that enables the monitoring managers or the guardians to receive messages sent from the server that tell the patients' whereabouts through their smart devices. The system suggested in this paper is believed to be a system that effectively contributes to the prevention of the dementia patients' going astray from the hospitals and facilities where they are taking care.

Design of a Connected Security Lighting System for Pedestrian Safety in Smart Cities

“…Beacon service requires a beacon device, a beacon device Software Development Kit (SDK) for smartphone applications and a server for the beacon manager and service [40]. The beacon device periodically sends out signals (see Figure 3).…”