ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W5-2021-287-2021 DEVELOPMENT OF IOT ENABLED GLOBAL TRACKING SYSTEM AND MOBILE APPLICATION FOR PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE İleri K. 1 Duru A. 2 Karaş İ. R. 3 Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Karabuk University, 78050 Karabuk, Turkey Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Karabuk University, 78050 Karabuk, Turkey Dept. of Computer Engineering, Karabuk University, 78050 Karabuk, Turkey 23 12 2021 XLVI-4/W5-2021 287 290 Copyright: © 2021 K. İleri et al. 2021 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVI-4-W5-2021/287/2021/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W5-2021-287-2021.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVI-4-W5-2021/287/2021/isprs-archives-XLVI-4-W5-2021-287-2021.pdf

Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease meaning that it gets worse with time. Memory loss, speaking problems, wandering, and getting lost are some of the signs of the disease. The risk of wandering results in high demand for extensive monitoring solutions for the patients suffering from the disease. Tracking solutions are crucial, especially for family members and caregivers, so researchers develop new wearable tracking devices to overcome missing patients. GPS technology can provide location data with high accuracy, but it is not sufficient to use only by itself. Thus, a more extensive solution should be provided. In this paper, a mobile wearable tracking device that can provide data to the mobile application through internet has been developed for patient tracking purposes.