Hey guys, I am planning on doing a project for 2nd year engineering project and my mate said that the best way to do it was using an arduino. I am fairly new to the arduino universe so i just wanted to get opinions or whether this project is actually feasible/possibe or not.
Elderly assistance band:
Will have a radio frequency emitter/detector module which when detected will open doors and switch on lights in rooms
Pulse monitor which will send a distress call to someone if the pulse reaches dangerous levels
gps module to monitor the location of the elderly person constantly
a manual distress call module for when they think they are in danger/need help.
Just wanted to know if this is actually possible using a single arduino or is this too many modules. Any help is greatly appreciated
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Kind of i guess, so is this project even remotely feasible at all. I know all of them can be done separately but i am just wondering if i could do all of that using the same arduino because i am limited to that
If you can find a gps that works indoors maybe, but most of them don't. As far as the radio, anything is possible if you have enough money. There are Wifi modules RF modems , 900mhz modems, 433 Mhz radios, 2.4 Ghz, and who knows what else. The distress call could be a GSM shield. I think there is a GSM +GPS shield. There are Ethernet shields for sending messages to the web. The pulse monitoring is probably the easiest part. There are 5.8 Ghz video transmitters You need to separate the modules and post each individually since no one sub-component belongs in the same category as the others. You need to define your budget first because the advise you get will be useless if you can't afford to follow it.
You might be able to use this:
Thanks for the help. The projects main criteria is that it has to implement at least 3 sensors and the budget is 300 bucks.
The project as an exercise is doable. However there are many things that stop it from being a useful product in practice.
In practice it will not be reliable, and the elderly person will not like having a pulse rate monitor permenantly attached.