An IoT-LoRa System for Tracking a Patient with a Mental Disorder: Correlation between Battery Capacity and Speed of Movement

This paper investigates the performance of battery capacity in the proposed IoT-LoRa device to track and monitor a patient with a mental disorder. Reduction of battery capacity was correlated against the movement speed of users. Three experimental scenarios were conducted for a patient moving at 1–3 km/h, 5–8 km/h, and 1–30 km/h. The real time data were taken from two multinode LoRa units at 10 different locational points with a time interval of 30 minutes. The experiment had 113 data iterations to determine percentage of battery capacity and RSSI level. It was found that the faster a patient is moving, the greater the capacity of the battery reduces.

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