A smart phone-based pocket fall accident detection, positioning, and rescue system

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-56

  Kau, Lih Jen ^a   Chen, Chih Sheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MHEALTH; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

CASCADE CLASSIFIERS; CASCADED CLASSIFICATION; CASCADED CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; ELECTRONIC COMPASS; SEQUENTIAL MANNERS; THIRD-GENERATION (3G) NETWORKS; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER;

SMARTPHONES;

ACCELEROMETRY; AGED; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOBILE PHONE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ACCELEROMETRY; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CELL PHONES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84920972638     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: 21682208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2014.2328593     Document Type: Article

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