Garment-based detection of falls and activities of daily living using 3-axis MEMS accelerometer

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1059-1067

  Nyan, M N ^a   Tay, Francis E H ^a   Manimaran, M ^b   Seah, K H W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Falls; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744545137     PISSN: 17426588     EISSN: 17426596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/34/1/175     Document Type: Article

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