Development and implementation of TCP/IP for old age tracking solution
- MSC CS 2016-2018
Old aged peoples in the old age homes are suffering from many issues. So they need special attention to look after them and provide sufficient care. As the increasing popularity in old age homes, it is impractical to assign each person to a caretaker. Consequently, with the help of IOT a system is proposed to tracking of these people. Hence it is possible to look after and monitor many people at the same time remotely.
By proposing a handheld device to old age people, it is possible to provide adequate assistance such as medicines, food delivery, support, paying bills ,services of nearby police and ambulance etc. The old age people may or may not be familiar with modern technologies, so that it is essential to design the device as simple as possible. It must be operable; irrespective of the knowledge and experience of the user. The information is passing through the medium of internet.
A communication protocol is a description of the rules computers must follow to communicate with each other. The TCP/IP protocol suite refers to several separate protocols that computers use to transfer data across networks. It is named after the two most important protocols in its suite, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP). TCP/IP is widely used because its ability to switch packets from all shapes and sizes and varieties of networks. The aim of this Master project was to implement a TCP/IP stack in an embedded system. The intended embedded system demanded some requirements on the TCP/IP stack. Only the most important protocols, and features in these protocols, should be implemented. Memory usage should be kept low, and embedded-C coding rules should be employed.