A wearable system for pre-impact fall detection

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3475-3481

  Nyan, M N ^a   Tay, Francis E H ^a,b   Murugasu, E ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Body area network; Elderly; Faint fall; Fall detection; Gyroscope; Pre impact; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ALARM SYSTEMS; GYROSCOPES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; ELDERLY; FAINT FALL; FALL DETECTION; PRE-IMPACT; SYNCOPE;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACCELEROMETER; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FALLING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCELERATION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 56549108173     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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