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MAMAIRO's Efforts to Use Tags to Help Dementia Patients Get Out and About

When "IoT with care" is put to practical use, it seems to me that breakthroughs will come much closer.

MAMORIO, developer of lost-and-found tracking tags, partners with Eisai to develop Me-MAMORIO, a tool to help dementia patients get out and about.

Me-MAMORIO's strengths are its portability and the fact that it is very small and lightweight compared to GPS devices; Me-MAMORIO aims to preserve the dignity of dementia patients and allow them to go out freely, relatively safe as they used to do.

The biggest problem is how to get the elderly to wear smart devices. This kind of solution is. As a rule, they don't carry around a smart phone, their clothes would end up being changed, and even if they were to plant them in their shoes, it would be difficult to replace them. What I personally find interesting is the smart bead. I wonder if it would be easy for people to wear it if it were designed to look like a prayer bead, wrapped around their wrist, and waterproof.

However, with bluetooth, it can only catch up to 30 meters, so the problem of a constant high load on the humans watching over them is not easily solved. The advantages of low cost, light weight, and long battery life are great, but they do not solve the problem of high load on the person being watched, which we have introduced in the past.Nagaokakyo City, Kyoto Prefecture, which has implemented an initiative to watch over the elderly with Bluetooth.How do you solve the problem of the failure of the "Mere Old Man" who left with a tag but was not detected by the receiver and went to Osaka?

I think this is killer content that the IoT will solve, and I look forward to seeing more of it in the future.