Report completed by: Dr. Abhishek Appaji [email protected]

1. Milestones: 

● Procuring the raw materials for printing – 1 week 

● Design of a few 3D printed products – 2 days 

● Printing the kit and its content – 1 week 

● Assembling the contents in the kit – 1 day 

● Distribution of kits to the urban slums in Siddapura along with our partner NGO – 1 week 

● Feedback after one week – 1 day 

● Analysis – 2 days 

2. Organizational Units (OUs) 

● IEEE Bangalore Section SIGHT group 

3. External Collaboration 

● Bharath Vikas Parishad – https://bvpindia.com/ 

● They have helped us to identify the community and unmet needs. They helped us with the kit distribution. 

4. Stakeholders Involved 

We had multiple stakeholders in this project: 

● Region 10: Sponsors of the project 

● IEEE Volunteers: Around 10 IEEE SIGHT Volunteers implemented these projects as agreed in collaboration with NGO, Beneficiary community, and IEEE BMSCE Student Branch.

● NGO: Bharath Vikas Parishad South Pranth who helped us in the distribution of the kit effectively and also extended financial help. The NGO also helped by connecting to the local authorities and appraised them about the self-care kit which was appreciated. 

● Beneficiary community: The beneficiary community here is Urban Slum in a place called gavipuram in Bangalore. 100 households got benefited from the kit. ● IEEE BMSCE Student Branch: IEEE BMSCE Student branch is the most active student branch. Prof. Sreekanth who is in charge of the 3D printing research and development lab of BMSCE contributed towards the project’s success as agreed. 

5. Stakeholders impacted 

● IEEE Volunteers who helped us were around 10. 

● NGO: Around 4 volunteers from NGO, helped us in the distribution of the kit. ● Beneficiary community: We had a total of around 100 households and at an average considering 5 people per house. 

● IEEE BMSCE Student branch: 5 professional faculty members and 5 student members helped in the execution and implementation of the project. 

6. Outputs 

● Number of households benefited: 100 – These are the number of kits distributed ● Number of individuals benefited (assuming 5 per home): 0500 ● Number of kits containing finger cover, elbow dispensers, handy and door opener: 10100 each 

Additional outcomes 

● The kits also had miscellaneous items which included masks, alcoholic swabs, hand sanitizer gel, latex gloves, and a carrying pouch which served all the people in the underserved community households. 

● The above claim is in line with the results obtained from the analysis of the data collected from the users. 

7. Outcomes 

● Approximately 100 households stand benefitted from this project which in turn helps in breaking the chain of COVID19 pandemic spread especially in the underserved community.

● This project also sensitizes the community about hygiene through the usage training which will be carried by the IEEE Volunteers and partner NGO. ● The NGO will be adapting the technology for scaling in other slums adopted by them. 

● A detailed survey is conducted on a suitable sample size from the distributed population in urban slums and further analysis will be carried out for replication and scaling. 

● These details along with key performance indicators will be shared with the appropriate government agencies and our partner NGOs. 

● We also discussed the analysis of this project with the government for adopting this project through the local authorities. 

● The design files are attached. It is simple in design and can be mass distributed after the successful implementation of this project for scaling purposes. ● 100+ kits were distributed out of which almost 100+ have answered the survey after 1 week of distribution of the kit. The survey results are attached. ● The above claim is in line with the results obtained from the analysis of the data collected from the users. 

8. Communicating Results 

Photos + Videos 

The results are shared with the Bangalore Section newsletter and in 5 different webinars organized recently. A technical paper about the project and its learning is in progress. 

9. What were your biggest lessons learned from this project? 

The biggest lesson was the working of elbow based sanitizer. It did not work as anticipated and broke while transporting. Hence, we redesigned it and distributed it. However, further changes have to be done for the next phase of the project. 

10. What part of the project is the biggest success and why? 

Many of the end-users have opined that they would buy this kit at a cost, if made available in the market. 

The Analytics of the survey can be seen in the link below https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1x71841bVViQl3GOh6XwbzZKu8Tt_j3zzeL2_IuFN Mx0/viewanalytics

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Abstract

The purpose of this project is to design and construct a GPS tracking device that can be tracked from the internet. This project consists of four parts. The first part is a mobile device with an embedded GPS and wireless Internet connection to transmit its current location. The second part is a web server that will receive the data, parse it and store it for access over the internet. The third component is the user interface that will allow others to visually identify the current location of the device. To view its location, one could use any device that can connect to the internet such as a desktop computer, laptop, or cell phone. The data available through a browser includes a scalable map of the surrounding area, latitude, longitude, speed and altitude of the hand held device. The fourth part is the heart beat sensor which senses the heartbeat of the user.

In the proposed system, Arduino will be the microcontroller and there will be a solar panel for observing the solar energy and to store in the rechargeable battery and give supply to the whole kit. GPS is used for tacking location of the person or to obtain the latitude and longitude of the location so that one can easily find the location. GSM is intended for sending the location to the particular person and heart beat sensor measures the heart beat rate that will be displayed. Also, the project supports charging using solar cell whenever user wants to charge the device.

OBJECTIVES

The Main Objective of this system is to develop a Track & Trace Management System Integrated with Accurate GPS Location Data Pinging using Internet of Things. 

To design a GPS tracker this uses to track the position of a dementia or intellectual disability person. It also senses the heartbeat of a person. This is mainly for the dementia people to track their location. This report presents the design of a reliable and accurate GPS tracker. This system utilizes the GPS for finding the location in terms of longitude and latitude. The proposed system is standalone, accurate, durable, reliable, and cost efficient.

    GPS gets the location information from satellites in the form of latitude and longitude. The microcontroller processes this information and sends to GSM. The Global system for mobile communication sends information to mobile. It senses the heartbeat of the person.

Developed System:

Figure: Block Diagram

Figure: Flow Diagram

Problems facing by dementia and mentally disabled persons

• Patients don’t know exactly where they are moving around.
• They don’t aware of their health issues all the time.
• Even though some patients are in hospitals there are no proper staff to look after each person individually
• Some patients are in their homes and their family members go out for earning. They don’t know whether the patient is in house or not.
• Difficult to know their health condition

  Limitations on existing methods:

• Though there were hospitals they are not sufficient
• Existing GPS tracker is running on a battery. If charging is over it will stop working
• No proper device exclusively for them

Our proposed system

• Their family members know dementia persons current location.
• Sensing of heart beat of a patient.

Advantages

• It provides effective real time location of a dementia person or vehicle
• Portable
• Low cost
• Low power consumption
• Compact device.

       Features 

• User can monitor the dementia or intellectual disability person from any part of the world using personalized app.
• ‘N’ number of dementia or intellectual disability persons can be monitored from single window.
• It is integrated with Geo-fencing systems for each individual Tracker.
• Live status/ position of dementia or intellectual disability person at any time. 
• Time of tracker data response is within 8 sec. 
• Long lasting battery backup for minimum of 7 days.
• Dual backup source – Solar & Battery.
• Water proof package.
• No need of any installation – Plug and Play feature.  

Future scope

One can add multiple sensors to the projects like temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the body and WIFI and Bluetooth technology together makes communication easier in future.