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Alzheimer is a dreaded disease for elderly people and their loved ones as handling such patients is a difficult task. The patients tend to forget their daily activities and many of them loss their way back home and it creates difficulty in locating them.

IoT-enabled devices with smart GPS sole embedded system will provide a solution for this problem. It tracks the patient’s location and updates it into the connected devices. It is a waterproof system so even if the patient enters water bodies, it will be working and sending signals to the connected devices. It will alert the loved ones about the location of the patients if they are wandering anywhere. This device is easy to wear as it is embedded into the sole and patients will never forget to wear footwear while going out.

Such smart devices will help Alzheimer patients to lead a healthy and normal life.