Implementación de un prototipo para localización de personas de la tercera edad utilizando una aplicación móvil con sistema operativo android y tecnología Sigfox.

Abstract

The present degree work shows a prototype of localization for the elderly person. The amount of the elderly person that has disappeared in recent years led to the investigation of a new device to help monitor the location of these people as a preventive measure. The prototype for locating the elderly person is based on a system made up of three subsystems: sensor subsystem, cloud subsystem, and mobile application subsystem. The sensor subsystem will obtain the location of the elderly person. The cloud subsystem uses Sigfox as a means of communication between the sensor subsystem and the mobile application subsystem. The mobile application subsystem developed for Android allows consulting the location of the elderly person and monitoring through a safe area. In chapter one, the objectives, scope and general concepts about: Sigfox, applications for locating people, programming languages, GPS, Pycom development boards are presented. Chapter two describes the architecture and operation of the prototype for locating the elderly. That is, each of the components of the sensor subsystem, the communication of the sensor subsystem with Sigfox and also the development of the mobile application subsystem are explained. In chapter three the tests carried out with the prototype and the correct functioning of each of the prototype subsystems will be presented. Finally, in chapter four the conclusions and recommendations obtained are presented.