A new smart fall-down detector for senior healthcare system using inertial microsensors

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 590-593

  Sui, Yongkun ^a   Ahn, Chanmin ^a   Ahn, Chong H ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; HEALTH CARE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

FALSE ALARM RATE; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; INERTIAL SENSOR; INTEGRATED ALGORITHM; PATTERNS OF MOTION; SMART ALGORITHMS; TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER; WI-FI - TECHNOLOGY;

MICROSENSORS;

AGED; ALGORITHM; FALLING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MICROCOMPUTER; MOTION; RUNNING; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MOTION; RUNNING; WALKING;

EID: 84929484219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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