Wearable wireless accelerometer with embedded fall-detection logic for multi-sensor ambient assisted living applications

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1967-1970

  Lombardi, Andrea ^a   Ferri, Massimo ^a   Rescio, Gabriele ^a   Grassi, Marco ^a   Malcovati, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; DATA COLLECTION; DETECTION LOGIC; FALL DETECTION; FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT; MEMS ACCELEROMETER; MEMS SENSORS; MULTI SENSOR; MULTI-SENSOR NETWORKS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC; WEARABLE SYSTEMS; ZIG-BEE;

ACCELEROMETERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TRANSCEIVERS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

SENSORS;

EID: 77951117436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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