Recognition of false alarms in fall detection systems

2011 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC'2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 23-28

  Abbate, Stefano ^a   Avvenuti, Marco ^b   Cola, Guglielmo ^d   Corsini, Paolo ^b   Light, Janet ^c   Vecchio, Alessio ^b  

^a IMT SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED STUDIES LUCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION DATA; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DETECTION ACCURACY; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; FALL DETECTION; FALSE ALARMS; HEALTH SERVICES; MOVEMENT PATTERN; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NUMBER OF FALSE ALARMS; WEARABLE DEVICES;

ACCELEROMETERS; ERRORS;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 79957913740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC.2011.5766464     Document Type: Conference Paper

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