Implementación de prototipo para seguimiento de personas con Alzheimer.

Abstract

The purpose of this final career project is to implement a monitoring prototype to know the whereabouts of a person with Alzheimer's, in a situation in which this person gets lost. The prototype consists of four subsystems that allow communication from the missing person to a family member until the family knows the Alzheimer´s persons locations. Chapter one focuses, on the one hand, on Alzheimer's disease, symptoms, stages, ways of treating it, and disappearances in the country due to this disease. On the other hand, it focuses on technological tools, both in software and hardware for the prototype implementation. Chapter two describes the subsystems of which the prototype is desiged and implemented. The four subsystems are detailed next: 1. Web page subsystem that shows information on the person with Alzheimer. 2. Database subsystem that saves the data of registered persons. 3. Mobile application subsystem that receives notifications of the whereabouts of the person with Alzheimer. 4. Portable device subsystem with QR code that leads to the profile of the persons with Alzheimer on the web page. Chapter three presents the performance tests of the final product with the four subsystems running. Finally, in chapter four the conclusions are presented, in which we describe how the prototype contributes to the confort of the persons with Alzheimer safety.