IoT-based Google Duplex Artificial Intelligence Solution for Elderly Care

The advancements in medical science and technology has resulted in an increased life span thus the mortality rate of the elderly has greatly decreased. The elderly often gets cognitively impaired and require urgent medical services which when left unnoticed may lead to fatal consequences. Due to lack of social care support for these adults, there arises the need to develop cost-effective assistive healthcare technological solutions for taking care of the elders and giving them the best tech-friendly experience. Intelligent homes, an environment of sensors with artificial intelligence integrated with home appliances, can provide the best solution for continuous and remote monitoring of the health of the persons. This helps elders to control various devices, also get immediate attention from the family members, healthcare assistants and/or have frequent visit to hospitals. Basically, an intelligent bed can help elders to prevent the occurrence of bedsores and falling off from bed by monitoring the position of the person while they are in bed. The latest Google Duplex Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be used as a voice-controlled speech recognition system, a personal assistant, to respond to the commands given by the person. We use Internet of Things (IoT) to establish the connectivity between the appliances, the user and his/her network. The major element of this system is a Raspberry Pi which will collect the data from the sensors and interprets them to manage the home appliances like light, fan, door, alarm (in case of emergency), manage phone calls, television, and other home appliances. There is also an emergency module which has sensors attached to the body of the person which helps the caretakers, relatives or friends to know about the health of the person. It continuously monitors the body conditions of the person and alerts his/her network in case of emergency.