A system for mobile assisted living

In this paper, a system is presented which supports mobile assisted living by combining the advantages of smart sensors, GPS and GSM technology. The system can detect abnormal situations with the person wearing the wearable part of the system (e.g. abnormal heart rate) and send this information to the nursing home so that appropriate action can be taken immediately. The information sent by the system to the nursing home includes the current location of the person on the earth in the form of longitude and latitude. This location information is what makes the system support mobile assisted living. The hardware of the system includes Atmega microcontroller, GTPA010 GPS module, SIM300 GSM module, some sensors (e.g. heart rate sensor, temperature and door sensors) and some other components. The system software is developed in C language on CVAVR platform.