Pramoda Ravi
Published © GPL3+

Distress System for Elderly

Automating a distress signal in the case of an emergency

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Grove starter kit plus for Intel Edison
Seeed Studio Grove starter kit plus for Intel Edison
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Intel Grove GPS
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LED (generic)
LED (generic)
We use the Green LED to display system health. Every 5 secs it flashes to show that system is working. We use Red LED to show that the Web service call is successfully made and there by indicating the acknowledgement of the emergency by the system. In our system user is required to press and hold the push button till the user sees the Red light. Once the user sees the red light he can release the button
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Software apps and online services

SMS Messaging API
Twilio SMS Messaging API
We use Twilio to send SMS.
Cloud IoT Core
Google Cloud IoT Core
We use Google Cloud Platform for the backend Web service. In the backend we make Twilio API calls to send SMS.

Story

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Code

Node JS code

JavaScript
Once the push button is pressed and held for 5 sec, the system detects the event, retrieves the GPS coordinates and invokes a Web service with the details.
/* This program captures the push button press and retrieves the GPS location and invokes a webservice to log the button press event.
    Copyright (C) 2016 Jayashree Ravi and Pramoda Ravi

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/


/*jslint node:true, vars:true, bitwise:true, unparam:true */
/*jshint unused:true */
// Leave the above lines for propper jshinting
//Type Node.js Here :)

console.log("Distress System for Elderly  Copyright (C) 2016  Jayashree Ravi and Pramoda Ravi");


var pushButtonSensor = require('jsupm_grove');

var mraa = require('mraa'); //require mraa

var gpsSensor = require('jsupm_ublox6');

// Create the button object using GPIO pin 4
var button = new pushButtonSensor.GroveButton(4);

// Instantiate a Ublox6 GPS device on uart 0.
var myGPSSensor = new gpsSensor.Ublox6(0);

// Green LED on Digital pin 6
var greenLed = new mraa.Gpio(6);
greenLed.dir(mraa.DIR_OUT);

//Red LED on Digital pin 8
var redLed = new mraa.Gpio(8);
redLed.dir(mraa.DIR_OUT);

if (!myGPSSensor.setupTty(gpsSensor.int_B9600))
{
    console.log("Failed to setup tty port parameters");
    process.exit(0);
}


// Read the input and print, waiting 5 seconds between readings
function readButtonValue() {
    // Turn the green LED on
    greenLed.write(1);
    console.log(button.name() + " value is " + button.value());
    
    if(button.value()==1) {
         
        var gpsStr = encodeURIComponent(getGPSInfo());
        console.log(gpsStr);
        const http = require('http');
        // Turn the red LED on
        redLed.write(1);
        http.get('http://www.mobibootcamp.com/sendMessage?uname=%22j%22&phoneNumber=%227347xxxxxx%22&gps='+gpsStr, function(res) {
            console.log('statusCode: ', res.statusCode);
            console.log('headers: ', res.headers);

            res.on('data', function(d) {
                console.log("data received");
                console.log(d.toString());
                redLed.write(0);
            });

        }).on('error', function(e) {
            console.error(e);
        });
    }
     setTimeout(greenLed.write(0),1000); 
}


function getGPSInfo()
{

    var bufferLength = 256;
    var nmeaBuffer  = new gpsSensor.charArray(bufferLength);
    var latlon;
    // we don't want the read to block in this example, so
    // check to see if data is available first.

    while(myGPSSensor.dataAvailable())
    {
        var rv = myGPSSensor.readData(nmeaBuffer, bufferLength);

        var GPSData, dataCharCode, isNewLine, lastNewLine;
        var numlines= 0;
        if (rv > 0)
        {
            GPSData = "";
            // read only the number of characters
            // specified by myGPSSensor.readData
            for (var x = 0; x < rv; x++)
                GPSData += nmeaBuffer.getitem(x);

            console.log(GPSData);
            var gpsArray = GPSData.toString().split('\n');
            for(var i=0; i<gpsArray.length; i++){
                console.log(gpsArray[i]);
                if(gpsArray[i].indexOf('GPGGA') !== -1){
                    var gpsparts = gpsArray[i].split(',');
                    var lat = gpsparts[2];
                    var lon = gpsparts[4];
                    if(lat && lon){
                        console.log("GPGGA reading:" + gpsArray[i]);
                        return (convertToDecimal(lat)+",-"+convertToDecimal(lon));
                    }else {
                        continue;
                    }
                }

                if(gpsArray[i].indexOf('GPRMC') !== -1){
                    var gpsparts2 = gpsArray[i].split(',');
                    var lat2 = gpsparts[3];
                    var lon2 = gpsparts[5];
                    if(lat2 && lon2){
                        return (convertToDecimal(lat2)+",-"+convertToDecimal(lon2));
                    } else {
                        continue;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        if (rv < 0) // some sort of read error occured
        {
            console.log("Port read error.");
            process.exit(0);
        }
    }
}

function convertToDecimal(lat){
    var firstpart = +(lat.substring(0,lat.length-7));
    var secondpart = +(lat.substring(lat.length-7));
    var latdecimal = firstpart+(secondpart/60);
    return latdecimal;
}
setInterval(readButtonValue, 5000);

Credits

Pramoda Ravi

Pramoda Ravi

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