Development of an Enhanced Threshold-Based Fall Detection System Using Smartphones With Built-In Accelerometers

Falls are a primary accident for elderly people living independently. Obviously, timely and accurate fall detection is critical to reduce the injuries and avoid the loss of life. In order to improve existing smartphone-based fall detection systems, this paper investigates the features of triaxial ac...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE sensors journal 2019-09, Vol.19 (18), p.8293-8302
Hauptverfasser:	Lee, Jin-Shyan, Tseng, Hsuan-Han
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acceleration Accelerometers Accidents Emergency medical services Fall detection Feature extraction Injury prevention Older people Sensors Smart phones Smartphones Support vector machines threshold-based approaches triaxial accelerometers
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