Environments

typical environment
Usage of robot and sensor in every-day surrounding of elder people with dementia:

• nursing home
• day care
• at home

All these places are inside a building. The surrounding is known to both, robot and patient.
In case the robot is not able to distract the patient from leaving, a caregiver or family member is nearby. 

requirements for the environment

• reachable door
  The room or house has to have a door. That door leads outside the patient's room or outside the building, where the patient is not allowed to go (alone). The door should never be out of the robots reach (no lose of connection to sensor, no stairways), so that the robot can always reach the door and help the patient.

• little 'traffic' through door
  The Robot-Sensor construction might not be helpful in clinical surroundings, since the sensor at the door must be activated every time a person (doctor, nurse, family) leaves the room. In hospital rooms is to much 'traffic'.