A new washable low-cost garment for everyday fall detection

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6377-6380

  Niazmand, Khalil ^a   Jehle, Claudius ^a   D'Angelo, Lorenzo T ^a   Lueth, Tim C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MAGNITUDE; ACCELERATION SENSORS; CONTROL ELECTRONICS; DAILY LIVES; FALL DETECTION; LOW-VOLUME PRODUCTION; MEMORY CARD; OPTIMIZED PRODUCTION; POWER SUPPLY; RECHARGEABLE BATTERY; WIRELESS RADIO LINKS;

PRODUCTION; RADIO LINKS;

SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALLING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ALGORITHMS; CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY;

EID: 78650836282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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