BLUE Care: A Cooperative Location Network for Handicapped Persons

Many dependents such as children, elderly or disabled people get lost or missing, but as handicapped people, they often lack the skills to protect themselves, and tutors cannot keep their dependents in sight all of the time. Therefore, the challenge to be tackled in this paper is to develop a dependents' cooperative location network over which tutors could monitor the dependents' positions in real time, giving them more freedom to safely roam within public spaces. Not only in open spaces such as crowded parks or streets, but also inside buildings such as city malls, museums or nursing homes. The aim of this paper is twofold, to create a cooperative and dynamic network of tutors over which monitor the position of their dependents by means of standardized technologies, and to understand how the physical environment could influence handicapped people's activities by means of behavioral analysis in public spaces.