Safety and Security Enhanced Wheelchair / "SmartChair"

Ryan Pearce

Angelo Biaggi

Trent Gallagher

 

 

This project augments a normal, non-motorized wheelchair to create a “smart” wheelchair at a much lower cost than full electronic chairs currently on market and with more automated capabilities. The technologies used include RFID (for a key-unlocked unattended mode), GPS, GSM, a solenoid-powered locking mechanism, and low-profile pressure detection in order to automatially detect when the user is attempting to get in or out of the chair.