Engineering Your Community Room Control Ashley Lengel, Evan Franz, Ethan Fitz

Ideas and Goals We all noticed that residents have a need for more tools in their rooms Things that came to mind: –Why do they have to have someone else open the door? –What do they do if they fall from their chair or bed? Pointers from staff: –Residents have phones but can’t answer them More control in their rooms would give the residents an increased sense of independence, thus meeting Beechwood’s mission.

Project 1: Phone Answering The goal is to use the room phone and wire it to the bed and/or chair –2 Buttons: 1 to answer, 1 to end call –Uses speakerphone function Eliminates need to hold phone up to ear

Project 2: Automatic Doors Something we all noticed the Beechwood residents need The goal is to use a similar system as the sensor on garage doors –When the resident sits in the path of the sensor with their chair, the door will be prompted to open

Project 3: Help Button If a resident falls from their chair or bed and can’t call for help, what do they do? We’d like to have a sensor in the room (perhaps along the floor/door/ceiling) that the resident can activate with their vision. –Need to consider the position of the resident after the fall and their inability to maneuver themselves to get to the button.

Help Button (Continued) Existing vision tracking systems are limited in range, but offer precise tracking of eye movements A vision-activated call button would need to be longer range, but not as precise The most common type of eye tracking system uses an infrared light source to create retinal reflections (similar to camera red-eye) and a camera to track the reflections

Thank you! Questions?