Abstract
Shriners Hospitals for Children, Northern California provides treatment to improve the mobility of children with cerebral palsy. The hospital wants to monitor falls and activity levels of the children under treatment. A separate project developed a Fall Detection Device to log falls and activity levels in children during two weeks of everyday living. However, the Fall Detection Device cannot identify where falls occur. This project fills the gap of identifying where falls occur by developing a mobile Location Tracking Device to work together with the Fall Detection Device. The project focuses on design, integration, and testing of the hardware and software that make up the Location Tracking Device. The overall design was driven by specific requirements defined by Shriners Hospitals for Children on the types of data to be collected, how often the data need to be collected, how long the data need to be collected, and how the collected data will be analyzed. The project successfully met all pre-defined objectives, except for the useful service life of the battery. The useful service life of the battery used in the design was calculated to be 13.6 days, while the design objective was 14 days. The report discusses areas of improvement, including design changes that will help increase the service life of the battery beyond 14 days.