Survey and evaluation of real-time fall detection approaches

6th International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies, HONET '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 158-164

  Perry, James T ^a   Kellog, Scott ^a   Vaidya, Sundar M ^a   Youn, Jong Hoon ^a   Ali, Hesham ^a   Sharif, Hamid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXISTING METHOD; FALL DETECTION; HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY; UNOBTRUSIVE MONITORING;

HEALTH CARE; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 77951063482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HONET.2009.5423081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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