Cane-9

This Cane-9 project was built as part of the IEEE Intuition 2023 in Nanyang Technological University.

About

The Cane-9 project is a project that incorporates softare location tracking capabilities into the everyday walking stick used by dementia patients. This serves to provide caregivers a means to obtain information about the real-time location of dementia patients, to identify if they are likely to be lost, and to provide them with a means to get help through an alert system. It is can also be used as a tool for caregivers to locate the dementia patients when they are lost quickly. This involves extensive integration between the various front-end, back-end and hardware components.

Components

• Flutter Mobile App
• React WebApp
• Express Backend Server
• Arduino with GPS functionalities

Key Functionalities:

• When in use, the arduino will send the location of the patient are regular intervals to the backend server.
• The database will contain information about the list of SafeZones and their acceptable radius.
• The location of the patient is queried from the database and reflected on the flutter mobile app.
• Once the patient leaves the SafeZones, the mobile app will be shown a button that allows the caregiver to enable the alert.
• On enable, the alert function will sound off the alarm on the cane to gain attention to the lost patient.
• An additional function to disable the alert will also be available for the caregiver.
• A QR Code is available on the cane to provide the helpers with the caregiver's contact information to ensure more efficient help

Tech Stack

Flutter Mobile App

1. Flutter

React WebApp

1. ReactJS
2. TailwindCSS

Backend Server

1. Express
2. Supabase
3. PostgreSQL
4. Docker

Arduino

1. ESP32
2. Arduino
3. Geolocation

Credits

• Chay Hui Xiang
• Ang Kai Jun
• Darren Suen Wei Jie
• Ivan Loke Zhi Hao