Wireless fall sensor with GPS location for monitoring the elderly

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 498-501

  Campo, Eric ^a   Grangereau, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

CONTROL AND MONITORING; EMBEDDED DEVICE; ENERGY EFFICIENT; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; FALL DETECTION; GPS RECEIVERS; PROCESSING STATIONS; ZIGBEE TECHNOLOGY;

RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FALLING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCER; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 61849130513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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