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Smart bracelet to help identify and locate lost elderly people (2014/02/24)

A new smart bracelet will make it easier to find and identify lost elderly and disabled people. The Federation for the Welfare of the Elderly cooperated with a local telecom to create the technology, which reveals information such as emergency contact numbers after just a quick scan using a smart phone. 

In the past, when elderly people disappeared, the only information that could be used to retrieve them included the clothes they were wearing and their hairstyles. This information often wasn’t enough to bring them back.

Now, as long as an elderly person wears this special smart bracelet, he or she can be identified by someone with a smart phone. Scanning the bracelet reveals information such as phone numbers of family members and the address of their residence. The new technology impressed artist Ann Lang, whose father suffers from dementia.

The telecom company that contributed to the bracelet says by utilizing GPS tracking, the bracelet will dramatically increase the recovery rate of lost elderly people.

James Cheng
Telecom Employee
Without this bracelet, the recovery rate for lost elderly people was about 60 percent. If they wear this bracelet then I believe that the recovery rate will be near 100 percent. 

The smart bracelet is expected to be officially launched this week, with 4,000 being issued to Taipei, New Taipei and Pingtung residents. Those suffering from dementia or people with disability cards can apply for a free bracelet.

防走失手環

根據統計，台灣每天平均有二十四個人走失，但找回來的機率，卻不到六成，老人福利推動聯盟和電信業者合作，研發智慧手環，未來只要用手機掃描，不到一分鐘，就能找到迷途者的家人資料，找到回家的路。

以前老人走失，只能靠身上穿的衣服、髮型，當線索，找回來的機率，往往並不高。

不過，現在只要戴上智慧型手環，其他人，用手機一感應，家人的名字、地址，通通秀出來。

電信業者表示，有了這種具備定位功能的手環，失蹤老人的尋獲率可望提高。

[[電信業者 鄭俊卿]]
以前沒有這個手環，尋獲率低於六成，如果有這樣的手環，尋獲率可以幾乎達到百分之百。


智慧手環預計二月底正式上路，首批將發出四千份供雙北及屏東地區，失智或領有殘障手冊的民眾，都能免費申請。

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