Design of automatic fall detector for elderly based on triaxial accelerometer

3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jiewen, Zheng ^a   Guang, Zhang ^a   Taihu, Wu ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fall detecion; gpsOne; Triaxial accelerometer; Two stage

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; BODY ORIENTATION; ELDERLY PEOPLE; FALL DETECTION; FALL DETECTORS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; SHORT MESSAGE; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; TWO STAGE;

ACCELEROMETERS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 72749119260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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