TY - JOUR
T1 - Real time monitoring of children, and adults with mental disabilities using a low-cost non-invasive electronic device
AU - Polanco, Carlos
AU - Vazquez, Ignacio Islas
AU - Martinez-Rivas, Adrian
AU - Arias-Estrada, Miguel
AU - Buhse, Thomas
AU - Calva, Juan J.
AU - Salinas, Carlos Aguilar
AU - Hernández, Claudia Pimentel
AU - Uversky, Vladimir N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2017/9/28
Y1 - 2017/9/28
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Arduino® platform
KW - Children
KW - Electronic devices
KW - Mental disabilities
KW - Real time monitoring
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85030650342&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/mi8100292
DO - 10.3390/mi8100292
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85030650342
SN - 2072-666X
VL - 8
JO - Micromachines
JF - Micromachines
IS - 10
M1 - 292
ER -