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Research Paper | Information Technology | India | Volume 4 Issue 6, June 2015

Android Application Supporting Old Age Life

Yashika Tyagi | Alpana Kakkar ^[2]

Abstract: Nowadays medical life is more dependent on healthcare modern technologies. In this modern era, smart phones have become the integral part of our lives, henceforth we can-t avoid the most popular, talked about mobile OS (operating system), i. e, Android. These days when our government is taking so many initiatives for Senior Citizens then how could technology can be left behind in supporting these experienced Senior Citizens. Old age life has its own constraints but in era of this digital world, android apps have come up as a Life support for these senior citizens. This paper proposes a smart solution to the family member of concerned senior citizen and also to the doctor in vicinity of 5 km for immediate response and care of the senior family member. A wearable sensor which is connected to the android smart phone of old family member, is not only used to measure his/her blood pressure but also used to transmit the measured BP to the Android smartphone of the concerned person. Which is connected to the Smartphone with the help of Bluetooth device. The BP reading is then transmitted to the family member whose number whose number is in speed dial or the doctor. Google Map API is used to search nearby doctors.

Keywords: Blood pressure, wireless network, Android, wearable sensor, Google Map API, Bluetooth

Edition: Volume 4 Issue 6, June 2015,

Pages: 429 - 432

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