Home Monitoring for Elderly People

Abstract

Home monitoring system for elderly people focuses on the nuclear families and the elderly people living alone. The use of technology in monitoring the daily activities of the elderly people will help to keep an eye on the people without compromising with their privacy. The use of various types of sensors, microcontroller and GSM module creates the basic idea of our project and helps us to analyze the data which was collected during the implementation of the project. The basic idea is to check the daily cycle of the elderly person and then creating the time table of the person. If some abnormal activities are detected then an emergency message is sent to the care taker via GSM module and a buzzer also starts ringing. This buzzer keeps ringing until an external person (in our case neighbor) enters the house and stops it manually. We have also kept emergency switches in the system that may be installed in the desired places and may be used by the person when he may face some difficulty. The use of GSM (Global System for Mobile) gives a correspondence among patient and caretaker