Proposal of Supporting System for Diabetes Patients

The number of diabetic patients is increasing worldwide. Although treatments, such as medical diet, therapeutic exercise, and pharmacotherapy, are available to patients, they fail to show effectiveness with some patients. Some of the patients lack in daily exercises and 60 percent of the patients forget to take medicines on time. In order to solve such problems, a database system was developed to support the nursing of diabetic patients through using mobile phones. However, such systems fail to function as expected due to the reason that patients are required to keep in mind of the amount of exercise they are doing daily. In the past, we developed a system to help remind patients to take medicines on time, but it doesn’t deal with the problem of daily exercise. In this study, we proposed a new supporting system for diabetes patients by using acceleration sensor. This system can record the amount of exercise of the user automatically, and offer advice accordingly. By using photo detector, this system can also recognize the situation of medication, and suggest the correct medication to the user. Furthermore, this system also demonstrates capacity to administrate the situation of the patients’ exercise, which is considered more effective than the previous model.