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MAMAIRO'S EFFORTS TO USE TAGS TO HELP DEMENTIA PATIENTS GO OUT

When "IoT with nursing care" is put to practical use, I think it will bring us closer to a breakthrough.

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

The strength of Me-MAMORIO is that, in addition to being easy to carry, it is also very small and lightweight compared to GPS devices, and Me-MAMORIO aims to preserve the dignity of people with dementia and allow them to go out freely, in relative safety, as they used to do.

The biggest problem is how to get older people to wear their smart devices. This kind of solution is. As a rule, they don't carry around a smartphone, and if they change their clothes, it's over, and even if you plant it in their shoes, it's hard to replace. What I personally think is interesting is the smart bead. I thought it would be easy for people to wear it if it was designed to look like prayer beads, wrapped around the wrist, and waterproof.

However, bluetooth can catch only 30 meters maximum, so the problem that the person who watches over the elderly is always under high load is not solved easily. The merits of low cost, light weight, and battery life are great, but how to solve the problem that the tag was not detected by the receiver and went to Osaka, as shown in the failure story of Nagaokakyo City in Kyoto Prefecture, which introduced the Bluetooth system to watch over the elderly.

I think it's a killer content to solve with IoT, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of it in the future.