{"id":5717,"date":"2020-10-12T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T10:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2020-10-12T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T10:55:55","slug":"dementia-anti-wandering-using-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/dementia-anti-wandering-using-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Anti-Wandering Using Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Hong Kong Multimedia Technology Research Center (MTREC) has an interesting project that implements a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/eek123.ust.hk\/DementiaAnti-Wandering\/System.html\" target=\"_blank\">dementia anti-wandering system using iBeacons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dementiaantiwandering-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dementiaantiwandering-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dementiaantiwandering-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dementiaantiwandering-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dementiaantiwandering-1200x676.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/dementiaantiwandering.jpg 1424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cse.ust.hk\/~gchan\/papers\/IMWUT18_Mosent.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">paper (pdf)<\/a> explains how it uses a novel multi-hop system to track targets using mobile sensors. The multi-hop approach extends the sensing area and reduces the deployment cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"475\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/beaconcooperativetracking.png\" alt=\"iBeacon Cooperative Tracking\" class=\"wp-image-5719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/beaconcooperativetracking.png 475w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/beaconcooperativetracking-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 85vw, 475px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The system uses a particle filter which analyses the temporal and spatial information of the targets to achieve 4.37m and 9.46m tracking error in a campus and a shopping mall respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/LifeSciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read about Beacons in Life Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Multimedia Technology Research Center (MTREC) has an interesting project that implements a dementia anti-wandering system using iBeacons. A paper (pdf) explains how it uses a novel multi-hop system to track targets using mobile sensors. The multi-hop approach extends the sensing area and reduces the deployment cost. The system uses a particle filter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/dementia-anti-wandering-using-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dementia Anti-Wandering Using Beacons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128,229],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}