Design of an unobtrusive system for fall detection in multiple occupancy residences

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 4690-4693

  Ariani, Arni ^a   Redmond, Stephen J ^a   Zhang, Zhaonan ^a   Narayanan, Michael R ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALL DETECTION; LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS; MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY; PASSIVE INFRARED; PRESSURE MAT; TRACKING METHOD;

GRAPH THEORY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84886467086     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610594     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. M.E. Tinetti, "Prevention of falls and fall injuries in elderly persons - A research agenda, " Preventive Medicine, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 756-762, 1994.
2. G. Henley and J.E. Harrison, Injury deaths, Australia, 2003-04. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2007.
3. R. Kreisfeld and J.E. Harrison, Hospital separations due to injury and poisoning 2005-06. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010.
4. C.E. Bradley and S. Pointer, Hospitalisations due to falls in older people, Australia, 2005-06. Australian Institute of Health andWelfare, 2009.
5. S.R. Lord, C. Sherrington, and H.B. Menz, Falls in older people: risk factors and strategies for prevention. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
6. A. Reece and J. Simpson, "Preparing older people to cope after a fall, " Physiotherapy, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 227-235, 1996.
7. J. Fleming and C. Brayne, "Inability to get up after falling, subsequent time on floor, and summoning help: prospective cohort study in people over 90, " BMJ: British Medical Journal, vol. 337, no. 7681, pp. 1279- 1282, 2008.
8. D.M. Karantonis, M.R. Narayanan, M. Mathie, N.H. Lovell, and B.G. Celler, "Implementation of a real-time human movement classifier using a triaxial accelerometer for ambulatory monitoring, " IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 156-167, 2006.
9. M. Alwan, P.J. Rajendran, S. Kell, D. Mack, S. Dalal, M. Wolfe, and R. Felder, "A smart and passive floor-vibration based fall detector for elderly, " in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications, 2006, pp. 1003-1007.
10. Z. Zhang, U. Kapoor, M.R. Narayanan, N.H. Lovell, and S.J. Redmond, "Design of an unobtrusive wireless sensor network for nighttime falls detection, " in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2011, pp. 5275-5278.
11. H. Nait-Charif and S.J. McKenna, "Activity summarisation and fall detection in a supportive home environment, " in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004, pp. 323- 326.
12. Y. Zigel, D. Litvak, and I. Gannot, "A Method for Automatic Fall Detection of Elderly People Using Floor Vibrations and Sound-Proof of Concept on Human Mimicking Doll Falls, " IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 2858-2867, 2009.
13. J.Willems, G. Debard, B. Vanrumste, and T. Goedemé, "A video-based algorithm for elderly fall detection, " in World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7-12, 2009, Munich, Germany, 2009, pp. 312-315.
14. B.U. Toreyin, E.B. Soyer, I. Onaran, and A.E. Cetin, "Falling person detection using multisensor signal processing, " EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2008, p. 29, 2008.
15. D.N. Monekosso and P. Remagnino, "Behavior analysis for assisted living, " IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 879-886, 2010.
16. A. Ariani, S.J. Redmond, D. Chang, and N.H. Lovell, "Simulated unobtrusive falls detection with multiple persons, " IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 3185-3196, 2012.
17. E.B. Soyer, "Pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensor based event detection, " Ph.D. dissertation, Bilkent university, 2009.
18. A. Ariani, S.J. Redmond, D. Chang, and N.H. Lovell, "Software simulation of unobtrusive falls detection at night-time using passive infrared and pressure mat sensors, " in Proceedings of the 32rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2010, pp. 2115-2118.
19. X. Yu, "Approaches and principles of fall detection for elderly and patient, " in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on ehealth Networking, Applications and Services, 2008, pp. 42-47.
20. K. Johnston, A. Worley, K. Grimmer-Somers, M. Sutherland, and L. Amos, "Personal alarm use to call the ambulance after a fall in older people: characteristics of clients and falls, " Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1-9, 2010.