Wireless inertial measurement unit with GPS (WIMU-GPS) Wearable monitoring platform for ecological assessment of lifespace and mobility in aging and disease

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5815-5819

  Boissy, Patrick ^a   Brière, Simon ^b   Hamel, Mathieu ^b   Jog, Mandar ^c   Speechley, Mark ^c   Karelis, Antony ^d   Frank, James ^e   Vincent, Claude ^f   Edwards, Rodrick ^g   Duval, Christian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF GERIATRICS OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MONITORING; DATA-LOGGING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GPS TRACKING; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INERTIAL SENSING; MOBILITY PROFILES; MONITORING PLATFORM; OLDER ADULTS; POWER USAGE; TIME TO FIRST FIXES;

INNOVATION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

MONITORING;

ACCELERATION; ACTIMETRY; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; REMOTE SENSING; EQUIPMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCELERATION; ACTIGRAPHY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLULAR PHONE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84862288220     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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