Fall detection with wearable sensors - Safe (SmArt Fall dEtection)

Proceedings - 2011 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 318-321

  Ojetola, Olukunle ^a   Gaura, Elena I ^a   Brusey, James ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body Sensor Networks; Machine Learning; MEMS Accelerometers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; DATA GATHERING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FALL DETECTION; HIGH RATE; MACHINE-LEARNING; MEMS ACCELEROMETERS; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; RIGHT AND LEFT; TRAINING SETS; WEARABLE SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETERS; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; CONFERENCE CALLS; DECISION TREES; GYROSCOPES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSORS;

EID: 81255170213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IE.2011.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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