New Smartwatch For Alzheimer’s Patients Revealed

Fortunately, smart gadgets aren’t designed only for entertaining purposes like tracking calories, reading emails or games. Guard2me is a new smartwatch for Alzheimer’s patients that incorporates a tracking system that is specially designed to look after the patients and other elderly people. This new gadget has a GPS and a cellular networks which helps to pinpoint the location of its wearer in case one gets disoriented and wander into unknown or unfamiliar places. A smartphone or a website can be used to track the location since it’s positioned on Google Maps.

Users can set the watch to update at certain interval via the site. It can also be used if the wearer leaves the safety zone. If the wearer enters a zone that the smartwatch sees it a “danger zone” it will send a text message to alert the one who’s in charge. The new smartwatch for Alzheimer’s patients can record activity so the caregivers can configure the updates for the best interest of the watch wearer.

Thanks to the SIM card of the device the system can use what it’s called “cellular triangulation” for locating the wearer in indoor locations where a GPS can be out of its range. This SIM card makes the smartwatch usable in 145 countries.

New Smartwatch For Alzheimer’s Patients Revealed – Guard2me

Inside the smartwatch there is an accelerometer that alerts the caregiver if the patient has lost his way.

Although there are a lot of GPS tracking devices out there Guard2me stands out from all of them with its panic button mode that sends a text message in case there is an emergency. It also gives the name of the wearer, his contact and medical details like the blood type and the medications the wearer is taking.

The new smartwatch for Alzheimer’s patients costs around $400 and it was made available starting march.