Device for monitoring elderly or handicapped persons in an emergency situation

摘要

The device has a positioning device (3a) for positioning transmitters (5a, 5b) that are attached to a body of a person (2), and an evaluation device (11) for reception of positioning information of the positioning device and for forming movement image of the transmitters. The evaluation device is designed in a programmed and/or wired manner to detect an emergency and falling of a person based on the movement image. The evaluation device detects additional information of the person by evaluation of relative position of the transmitters to each other. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a method for detection of emergency of a person (2) a computer program with a program code unit for execution of a method of detecting an emergency case of a person.