Seniors Mobile Health Monitor

Fujitsu and local govt offices in Hokaido will give special ’simple’ phone to Sr. citizens as life support service via monitor of GPS and pedometer data http://bit.ly/cgDHM1

Eds Note: For those who are not aware, the Raku-Raku (simple) handset and service offering is a niche targeted segment for seniors. More info via links below:

http://www.nttdocomo.com/features/mobility20.html
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2010/20100721-01.html
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/corporate/csr/report/individual_user/feature/

Machine Translation:

Fujitsu and the town office of Shiraoi. watch the elderly person of living alone with the [rakuraku] phone Fujitsu and Hokkaido and the Shiraoi town office announced that they jointly constructed a contact central system in the region as life support service for the senior citizen who used universal cellular phone “[Rakuraku] phone” of Fujitsu on August 19, and began operating on August 23.

In this service, it turns over ..60.. lazing about ..the allocation of the where to make contact of “Anther”, “..seeming.. [n]”, and “Coming [n] moxa cautery” in three buttons.. and the phone is distributed to the senior citizen of living alone. It consulted the support volunteer in the region only by pushing the button, and it informed the 119.

Moreover, the data of the pedometer built into carry is notified to the contact center by the automatic operation once a day. The watch functions such as grasps of the location information such as GPS sensors when abnormality of no movement from the specific location etc. is detected and taking the safety confirmation are offered.

Fujitsu and Fujitsu Research Institute propose it to the Shiraoi-cho, and as for this service, the Shiraoi-cho will expand the object of this system besides the senior citizen in the future, and examine the local populace’s convenience improvement and use for the local revitalization etc. by constructed what.