Today, more than ever, Europe is, and will be challenged with
demographic shifts within the coming decades. In fact, the EU’s
population aged 65 years old and over is expected to double between 1995
and 2050. This will have a massive impact on public transportation
especially with 22.2% the share of population aged 65 and more.
An increasing share of older people is living alone. This is due to
societal and cultural changes. As a consequence, elderly people lack
support from their relatives or partners, and usually have to travel
alone. In classic terms, trip planning, decisions, ticketing,
orientation in the stations and on-trip are more difficult for senior
passengers than younger ones. Information may appear confusing or
insufficient to them ; particularly when challenged with service
deviations , old people may feel unsettled. Fear of accidents and
harrassment, but also misbehaviour of staff are also important issues
among senior people and often prevent them from using public transport.
From here came the idea of Easy travel bracelet, dedicated to make life
easier and remake the public transportation experience for seniors using
Internet of things.
So, our customers will be seniors that are afraid to take public
transport because they may feel unsafe in it. It concerns people who are
more than 65 years old who also may feel isolated. Maps of public
transport are often complicated to understand at first sight so our
watch will guide them toward the city.
The target customers also can be the youth who care about their parents
The idea of our project would a connected watch which will assure their safety in public transport. Our watch has a sensor to monitor it’s owner’s healthy status by comparing those very important index but also is connected to the whole city emergency facilities through IoT technology.
When the senior person encounters any accident, for example, he or she falls down when there is an urgent stop the watch will call nearest hospital or emergency center as soon as it makes sure its owner needs help from professional doctors by measuring those index, physical functions, the owner's position and so on. Indeed our watch will be equipped with an accelerometer sensor and a gyrometer sensor which will immediately notice when the senior is falling.
Also, this watch will give medical suggestions taking from internet on site to its owner and the people around the owner how to act properly.
By pressing on another button, you can also call police are shortcut to call relatives.
Finally, to have a more comfortable trip in public transportation a voice command will be added to the watch. This will allows for seniors who can’t read well to follow a human voice. This voice wil notice the senior whenever he or she have to get out of the subway or bus staion. Using technology and internet, the watch will know which way you have to take to go to a point A to a point B to have a safe trip. For example, taking stations with fewer stairs or stations equipped with elevators.