Smart Assistant for Paralyzed and Elderly Patient

Abstract

Communication disorders are more common in elderly people and paralyzed because they are more likely to suffer from health conditions that can affect hearing, speech and comprehension. It will be hard for medical staff or the person in charge to understand what they want to convey and in helping them to manage their daily needs such as eating, drinking, bathing and etc. So we planning to develop a virtual assistant that neatly fits around arm in the form of a band, which takes care of this time consuming job leaving with who is care about ones in safe hands! The system makes use of a microcontroller based circuitry to achieve this functionality. It makes use of a hand motion recognition circuit and a receiver plus transmitter circuit. The hand motion circuit is used to detect hand movements using accelerometer+gyro and then transmit this information over GSM . Therefore, this project provides a low cost solution that eliminates the communication barriers and provides an efficient way of communication between elderly/paralyzed people and co-patient/ doctors.