title: A mobile phone-based safety support system for wandering elderly persons.
abstract: A new safety support system has been developed to detect and transmit notification of a wandering elderly person's location. The system employs a low transmitting power mobile phone (PHS) and a personal computer (PC). The PHS is carried with the elderly person as a pendant. The PHS location is identified within 100 m from the receiving antenna ID. Therefore, the system can detect whether the wandering elderly person is in or out of their home. When the wandering elderly person is away from home, the system automatically informs the caregiver via voice mode and sends the wandering elderly person's location map by e-mail.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information and Intellectual Systems, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima 731-5193, Japan.
authors.forename: Hidekuni
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yonezawa
authors.forename: Hiromichi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maki
authors.forename: Haruhiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Morton Caldwell