Home Tele-assistance System for Elderly or Disabled People in Rural Areas

Poor conditions and indifferent society are some of the main causes that elderly people currently live alone and may suffer health problems or injuries. Thus, in those cases these people require an emergency service attention in their homes or care centers. However, in most cases, they cannot call for help due to their lack of access to technology, geographical location (rural areas) or by their physical limitations. Based on these conditions, this work presents the implementation of a Home Tele-assistance system, which can send personal information and geographical location through the network of elder or disabled people. This information is stored in a database and is sent to their relatives and the emergency services, in order to accelerate the time response in an emergency. The prototype was designed based on a social project supported by the University in collaboration with communities in Ecuador.