IIT Kharagpur team develops app CARE4U for elderly people

In a move to help geriatric care, students of IIT Kharagpur have built an app which will inform the caregiver when the elderly person falls down with the exact location.

‘CARE4U’ the android-based app will connect the caregiver to the elderly person. The app has been built by an interdisciplinary team of the second year B-Tech students of the institute, an IIT Kharagpur statement said on Tuesday.

The network-based fall detection algorithm in the app installed on the phone of the elderly can detect whether the elderly has fallen down.

If there is a fall, it automatically calls the caregiver and emergency services along with the exact location of the elderly person.