System for monitoring and fall detection of patients using mobile 3-axis accelerometers sensors

MeMeA 2011 - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 456-459

  Mostarac, Petar ^a   Malaric, Roman ^a   Jurcevic, Marko ^a   Hegedus, Hrvoje ^a   Lay Ekuakille, Aime ^b   Vergallo, Patrizia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

accelerometers; fall detection; ZigBee standard

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; DATA ACQUISITION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; ZIGBEE;

3-AXIS ACCELEROMETER; FALL DETECTION; JOINT MOVEMENT; REAL TIME; TIME SPENT; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; ZIGBEE STANDARD;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 80052377121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2011.5966724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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