Design of an unobtrusive wireless sensor network for nighttime falls detection

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5275-5278

  Zhang, Zhaonan ^a   Kapoor, Udyant ^a   Narayanan, Michael ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a   Redmond, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION PATTERNS; ACTIVITY PATTERNS; AMBULATORY MONITORING; DETECTION SYSTEM; LOW COMPLEXITY; OLDER ADULTS; PASSIVE INFRARED; POPULATION AGING; PRESSURE MAT; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; WEARABLE SENSORS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ACCELEROMETERS; HEALTH CARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RECOVERY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FALLING; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; MALE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; TELEMETRY; THERMOGRAPHY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIGRAPHY; ADULT; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; TELEMETRY; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 84055192905     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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