Developing a wearable system for real-time physical activity monitoring in a home environment

Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference on Telehealth

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 45-50

  Yang, Che Chang ^a   Hsu, Yeh Liang ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ambulatory monitoring; Fall detection; Home telehealth; Physical activity; Tri axial accelerometer

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; DATA PROCESSING; SENSORS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; FALL DETECTION; HOME TELEHEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; TRI-AXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 54949140727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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