HELPER: A home assisted and cost effective living system for people with disabilities and homebound elderly

Abstract

Although there has been significant research and development on automation devices for assisted living, there has always been trade-offs in terms of the cost, complexity, design and efficiency. In this paper, a state-of-the-art simple and efficient yet cost effective reconfigurable assisted living system is proposed and implemented which will cater for the needs of bed-ridden patients, people with disability and senior citizens. The distinct feature which makes this implementation unique is its low cost, low power consuming hard ware and user-friendly control, hence the user can operate the system without any external assistance. Additionally, the proposed work is a good head-start towards Internet of Things (IoT) concept and provides multitude of input options to the user by integrating cellular communication and Zigbee protocol based wireless devices with Internet.