Using Android platform to detect free fall

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Computer Networks, ISCON 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 161-163

  Tiwari, Rahul ^a   Singh, Atul Kumar ^b   Khan, Shazeb Nawaz ^c  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

^b Ideal Institute of Technology   (India)

^c ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Android; Displacement based Algorithms; Fall detection

Indexed keywords

ANDROID; ANDROID PLATFORMS; ANDROID SMART PHONES; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; DETECTION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT-BASED; FALL DETECTION; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SMARTPHONES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84879756400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICISCON.2013.6524194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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