Design and Implementation of a Family Living Supporting System Based on ZigBee

For enhancing the self-caring ability of senior citizen, releasing the pressure of the warding people, a family living supporting system, which is very useful for the paralyzed patients or some people with mobility difficulties, is proposed. It is composed of the wireless transmitting unit, the speech recognition module and the network communication part. A speech recognition processing algorithm is designed to get some command messages from the user. The system not only uses these commands to control some household equipment, but also sends some helping signals via wireless network or Internet. If the family members aren´t prompt to respond to these helping messages, these messages will be transmitted by network communication part to the community service center for assistance immediately. It has some advantages of low-cost, low-power, high-performance, easy-operation and so on. As a result, it could be employed as a terminal of health-care of hospital or home.