A low power fall detection and activity monitoring system for nursing facilities and hospitals

BioWireleSS 2014 - Proceedings: 2014 IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 28-30

  Schwarzmeier, Andre ^a   Weigel, Robert ^a   Fischer, Georg ^a   Kissinger, Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL); Localization; Remote fall moni toring; Semi active UHF RFID

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNET OF THINGS; MONITORING; NURSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACTIVITY MONITORING SYSTEM; AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING (AAL); ENERGY EFFICIENT; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION; REMOTE FALL MONI-TORING; SERVER SOFTWARES; UHF RFID;

SENSORS;

EID: 84904005499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BioWireleSS.2014.6827736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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