Location Based Services (LBS) for the Elderly using Augmented Reality

Authors

  • Myeon-Gyun Cho

Abstract

Due to the transition to a rapidly aging society and nuclear family, the number of the elderly living alone in need of social attention and public welfare has also increased. In particular, the older people have a great difficulty in finding belongings in the house and evacuating in emergency situation, because they have no one to look after. By introducing location based services(LBS) through IT convergence with augmented reality(AR), it is possible to provide integrated services such as finding belongings in the home and saving the elderly from danger outside. In this paper, we propose an AR based LBS that locates belongings in the home, and evacuates the elderly from dangerous place or situations. Through the Bluetooth communication between smartphone and beacons, we have developed AR based LBS application in smartphone, with which the old can find their everyday belongings in home, and can escape dangerous areas during disasters such as fires and earthquakes. By introducing AR into LBS, the elderly could easily find belongings in home and quickly find way to outside from building in flames. To improve location accuracy of LBS, we used Bluetooth communication between beacons and smartphone.
This paper has developed an AR based application that finds location of personal belongings through Bluetooth communication and shows direction to the exit from dangerous place. By implementing LBS with two functions in smartphone, we can find that the old can easily find your belongings in the house and search for an escape route in case of fire wherever he goes. If the proposed system is adopted by elderly people living alone, the old will be able to lead independent lives conveniently and safely, both inside and outside the home. In the future, we will apply augmented reality technology to help the elderly to independently adapt to social life, which means fulfillment of public welfare.

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2020-03-26

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