Location-independent fall detection with smartphone

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mehner, Stefan ^a   Klauck, Ronny ^a   Koenig, Hartmut ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

accelerometer; fall detection; smartphone

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION SENSORS; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES; FALL DETECTION; INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES; LIMITED ENERGIES; RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS;

ACCELEROMETERS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 84888265050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2504335.2504346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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