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Implementation of Smart Shoes for Dementia Patients using Embedded Board and Low Power Wide Area Technology

저전력장거리 기술과 임베디드 보드를 이용한 치매 돌봄 스마트 신발 구현

  • Received : 2019.09.23
  • Accepted : 2019.10.18
  • Published : 2020.01.31

Abstract

In this paper smart shoes for dementia care using embedded boards and Low Power Wide Area technology and their application software are implemented. The communication board composed of Cortex-M3 board and LoRa module is embedded into groove made in outsole of smart shoes. Including the mold, the shoe outsole was manufactured by hand. By using application software and embedded board, caregiver can track the position of dementia patient using GPS and LoRa network. The location tracking and data transmission operations of smart shoes have been successfully verified in the outdoor environment. The smart shoes of this paper are applicable to a safety device to prevent the disappearance of demented patients through results of experiments and if bigdata is collected and analyzed by deep-learning, it may be helpful to analyze the predictive path of dementia patients or the pattern of dementia.

본 논문에서는 저전력장거리 기술과 임베디드 보드를 이용한 치매 돌봄 스마트 신발과 응용 소프트웨어를 구현하였다. Cortex-M3 보드와 로라 모듈로 구성된 통신 모듈은 신발 밑창의 홈에 내장 된다. 위치추적 응용 소프트웨어는 임베디드 보드에서 제공하는 신호와 GPS와 로라 망을 이용하여 보호자가 치매 환자의 위치 추적할 수 있다. 외부 환경에서 스마트 신발의 위치 추적 및 데이터 전송 동작이 성공적으로 확인되었다. 이러한 실험을 통해 본 논문에서 개발한 스마트 신발이 치매 환자의 돌봄을 위한 실종을 막는 안전장치로 응용 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

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