Personal alarm and step counter for cane

Project Overview

Older adults that require the use of a wheeled walker for day to day motility can cause serious harm to themselves by forgetting to use it. The goal of this project is to design a walker that can notify the user when he/she begins to walk away without it. In addition, the walker should provide useful feedback about the canes usage such as time, total steps taken and cadence. The technology would ideally be transferable to use with other assisted walking devices.