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Jayun Patel imagines an anti-theft smart health connected bracelet!
We have already seen jewelry that triggers an alert when the carrier is attacked. But you usually have to press a button to trigger it. Jayun Patel therefore imagined a new generation anti-theft smart health connected bracelet that will react on its own in the event of an attack.
Jayun Patel is a master's student and research assistant at the University of Alabama at SECuRE and Trustworthy Computing Lab in Birmingham (SECRETLab). The prototype he imagined as part of his research, includes an Adafruit Circuit Playground; a microcontroller equipped with a gyroscope, an accelerometer, temperature and pressure sensors, GPS and microphones.
"All of these sensors allow the bracelet to continuously monitoring user activity and vital signs," says Jayun Patel. "It can also determine the orientation of the user, for example, whether standing or lying. In addition, a machine learning algorithm detects and differentiates regular user movements from unexpected and sudden movements that may indicate an assault.
When such unexpected movements are detected, the bracelet emits a loud beep and begins to flash its red LEDs, to alert passersby. It also connects to the wearer's smartphone via a Bluetooth connection, then sends a message to the police and to the people preselected in the user's contact list. This message includes the user's current GPS coordinates.
The prototype developed only costs forty dollars and could probably be mass produced for much less. Jayun Patel is now looking to adapt the technology to other wearables, not just jewelry, that could send an alert when elderly or disabled people fall. Personally, I ask to see how this technology could be a little miniaturized because it still seems quite cumbersome at the moment.
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