GWAGNJU, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A police officer’s idea of using smart tag as a way to locate missing elderly dementia patients is paying off. Smart tags are small electronic devices designed to make it easier to detect the location of a missing object such as keys or luggage, and are sometimes used with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Smart keeper’ and ‘smart shoe insert’, two GPS devices distributed by a municipal office to help keep tabs on dementia patients, are contributing to shortening the time spent tracking them when they go missing. The watch-type smart keeper and the smart shoe insert provide location information, helping search activities [...]
IMSIL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean municipal government introduced a special sensor to prevent dementia patients from being lost or having an accident while wandering the streets. The municipal government in Imsil County, North Jeolla Province announced on Wednesday that had it decided to offer wrist-type GPS sensors for free to dementia [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – As cases of missing dementia patients increase, the Korean government is teaming up with police services and a mobile carrier to develop a location position system to easily track down lost patients. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning signed an MoU with SK Telecom, Jeonnam Provincial Police Agency [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A police station in the city of Cheongju is reaping positive results from the implementation of a program to track dementia sufferers using GPS. Cheongju Sangdang Police Station launched the monitoring system, in which dementia sufferers with their families’ consent are fitted with GPS locaters, in October 2014. Combined with Korea’s [...]