RT-Fall: A Real-Time and Contactless Fall Detection System with Commodity WiFi Devices

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 511-526

  Wang, Hao ^a   Zhang, Daqing ^a   Wang, Yasha ^a   Ma, Junyi ^a   Wang, Yuxiang ^b   Li, Shengjie ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

activity recognition; channel state information (CSI); Fall detection; phase difference; WiFi

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; WI-FI; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; DECLINE PATTERN; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; FALL DETECTION; PHASE DIFFERENCE; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTION; TIME FREQUENCY DOMAIN;

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION;

EID: 85009736013     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2016.2557795     Document Type: Article

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