An autonomous fall detection and alerting system based on mobile and ubiquitous computing

Proceedings - IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2013 and IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, ATC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 539-543

  He, Jian ^a   Hu, Chen ^a   Li, Yang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; Fall Detection; Mobile Smart Phone; Ubiquitous Computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894111851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UIC-ATC.2013.54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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