Towards an autonomous fall detection and alerting system on a mobile and pervasive environment

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2299-2310

  Lopes, Ivo C ^b   Vaidya, Binod ^a   Rodrigues, Joel J P C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Fall detection; Mobile devices; Sensors

Indexed keywords

ALERTING SYSTEMS; DAILY LIVES; FALL DETECTION; LIVING CONDITIONS; PERVASIVE ENVIRONMENTS; PHONE CALLS; SYSTEM CALIBRATION; TRACKING OBJECTS;

MOBILE DEVICES; SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETERS;

EID: 84879932457     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: 15729451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11235-011-9534-0     Document Type: Article

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