Telemedicine assessment of fall risk using wireless sensors

2013 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communications and Networking, SECON 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 245-247

  Allen, B ^a   Derveloy, R ^a   Fell, N ^b   Gasior, W ^c   Yu, G ^c   Sartipi, M ^a  

^a Graduate School of Computational Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^c Variable Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RISK PERCEPTION; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGIES (BTLE); HARDWARE SYSTEM; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; MODULAR SENSORS; POST STROKE PATIENTS; SCORING TECHNIQUES; STROKE PATIENTS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84890868620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2013.6644987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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