Smart Home Automation for Geriatric using Tactile and Wireless Sensor Networks

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Abstract

Elderly people who must stay alone in their houses, many a times require some assistance as they might get sick or may forget things which may result into safety and security hazards or even life hazards in some situations. In this paper, a solution is proposed to prevent such lifethreatening situations for our loved ones. This paper provides an idea in which one can use Wireless Sensor Network and Global System for Mobile Communication, to automate their house according to elderly comfort and by setting up security monitoring system for the time of emergencies. With the aim of providing our elders a safe and secure living. These smart homes automation based on elderly care, is integrated with many devices that can sense and control parameters to prevent the uncontrollable situations and many a times can even help to save someone’s life. In this research paper, devices like temperature sensor, LPG sensor, contact sensor and fall detector sensors are used respectively to detect fire, gas leakage, to automate doors and to set up fall detection system which basically includes gyroscope and triaxial accelerometer for better data extraction which will help to take preventive actions. For making this project user friendly, LabVIEW is used as graphical user interface (GUI).

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Keywords

Smart Home Automation, Wireless Sensor Network, Global System for Mobile Communication, Modem, Tactile sensor.