1. Project overview
The "I'm Fine" project is about monitoring the well being of especially lonely elderly people, who may not have daily contact to the family or other people. In this project I have chosen to represent the typical user as "Grandma".
This project provides a simple solution to help monitor people in a non intrusive way. By pressing a simple button a few times a day it can be signalled that "I'm Fine" and no help is needed. If the regular signalling stops, the system detects this and sends out email alerts to the family, who can then take proper response. This ensures that in case of a personal problem preventing the person from pressing the button, help can come in hours instead of days or maybe even longer...
Go to the Problem scenario page to read a detailed description of the concept.
The implementation on the Arduino MKR1000 device side is intentionally kept simple, with very few features, but the system can easily be expanded with other types of sensors. Sensors like movement detection using a PIR sensor, a smoke detector to detect fire, a temperature sensor to detect abnormal temperatures in the house and so on.
This project actually already implements a DHT22 sensor to measure temperature and humidity, mainly as a proof of concept and for testing the communication between the MKR1000 device and the Microsoft Azure IoTHub (data it is not monitored in the main application as of now).