{"id":6600,"date":"2021-08-20T09:51:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T09:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2021-08-20T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T09:52:25","slug":"a-beacon-based-mobility-aid-for-people-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/a-beacon-based-mobility-aid-for-people-with-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beacon-Based Mobility Aid for People with Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James Bayliss, a final year industrial design student at Loughborough University, has designed a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sdcashow2021.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/bayliss-james\/\" target=\"_blank\">smart mobility aid that uses beacons<\/a>. It&#8217;s allows people with dementia to live safely in their own home for longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6602\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick2.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The system, called &#8216;AIDE&#8217;, comprises of a walking stick that works with Bluetooth beacons situated around the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6601\" width=\"512\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick-1200x750.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/aidestick.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It tracks the person&#8217;s movement and uses machine learning software to detect behaviours and actions that are out of the ordinary. The system also provides reminders to the person to help re-orient them if they have a confused episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bayliss, a final year industrial design student at Loughborough University, has designed a smart mobility aid that uses beacons. It&#8217;s allows people with dementia to live safely in their own home for longer. The system, called &#8216;AIDE&#8217;, comprises of a walking stick that works with Bluetooth beacons situated around the home. It tracks the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/a-beacon-based-mobility-aid-for-people-with-dementia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Beacon-Based Mobility Aid for People with Dementia&#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":[290,93,128,229],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600"}],"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=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6606,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions\/6606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}