DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ARDUINO BASED SIGNALLING SYSTEM FOR PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSONS

Abstract

Humanity is the prime concern for the mankind to make a beautiful and peaceful world. Physically challenged children and elderly persons are part of our families and part of this society who need special care for their healthy lives in this technologically developed world. There are many care organizations and agencies which provide health care to the physically challenged persons but this mainly happens in developed countries. In developing and under-developed countries, many physically challenged persons face accidents such as heart attack, slipping on floor, fire breakout etc. Incident may also happen in houses where little children and elderly persons are left with caregivers because their parents and other family members are at work. During accidents, emergency contact persons, hospitals and ambulances should be notified immediately, and this is done by this project which has Arduino Uno in its architecture. Depending upon the nature of accident, emergency contact person can also contact with ambulance or fire service station and can give instructions as required. Utilization of Arduino Uno is the key to maximize performance and efficiency of the project. Focus has been kept on preparing a multi-role, user-friendly and costeffective model for physically challenged persons. It has also been included that there are children who have special needs and this project has been developed to be of help in specific scenarios such as, children with special needs being left with caregiver at home but somehow child is outside of specified perimeter and thus, parents who are at workplaces are notified about the situation right away. To develop the proposed system, significant scopes in this field are available for future research work.