Low-power fall detection in home-based environments

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 39-44

  Ren, Lingmei ^a   Zhang, Quan ^a   Shi, Weisong ^a,b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Detection Time; Energy efficient; Fall Detection; Hybrid Strategy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY RATE; ANGLE DETECTION; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; DETECTION TIME; ENERGY EFFICIENT; FALL DETECTION; FALSE POSITIVE; HYBRID STRATEGIES; LOW POWER;

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; HEALTH CARE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84863539895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2248341.2248349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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