Automatic fall detection using wearable biomedical signal measurement terminal

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5203-5206

  Nguyen, Thuy Trang ^a   Cho, Myeong Chan ^a   Lee, Tae Soo ^a  

^a Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; CDMA module; Fall detection; Wearable biomedical system

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

ACCELERATION SIGNALS; BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MESSAGES; FALL DETECTION; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; LIVING ENVIRONMENT; THRESHOLD ALGORITHMS; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 77950963762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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