Real life applicable fall detection system based on wireless body area network

2013 IEEE 10th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 62-67

  Baek, Woon Sung ^a   Kim, Dong Min ^a   Bashir, Faisal ^a   Pyun, Jae Young ^a  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COMPUTATION OVERHEADS; DETECTION APPROACH; PERSONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; REAL-TIME HEALTH MONITORING; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK;

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EID: 84876002132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC.2013.6488426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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