SFCW microwave radar for in-door fall detection

RWW 2012 - Proceedings: 2012 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems, BioWireleSS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 53-56

  Mercuri, M ^a   Schreurs, D ^a   Leroux, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Thomas More University College   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fall detection; health monitoring; radar remote sensing; SFCW radar

Indexed keywords

FALL DETECTION; HEALTH MONITORING; MICROWAVE RADARS; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; STEPPED FREQUENCY CONTINUOUS WAVES; VITAL SIGN;

RADAR; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84860597902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioWireless.2012.6172729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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