The Homecare project, which is part of a research project funded by the French National
Research Agency (ANR), aims to define a new multi-sensor monitoring system for the …

The Homecare project which is part of a research project funded by the French National
Research Agency (ANR), aims to define and experiment a new multi-sensor monitoring …

The article presents the early outcomes of the evaluation of an intelligent accelerometer unit
(IAU) utilized for detecting the falling events of elderly people. The overall design of the …

Background: The number of elderly people in need of help with the activities of daily living in
the EU is rapidly increasing, while the number of young workers is decreasing. Elderly care …

Today, the monitoring of dependent people is a real challenge. This is mainly due to the
increase in the number of elderly and reduction of medical staff. However, works done in …

Fall detection systems are designed in view to reduce the serious consequences of falls
thanks to the early automatic detection that enables a timely medical intervention. The …

In this paper, the main results related to a fall detection system are shown by means of a
personal server for the control and processing of the data acquired from multiple intelligent …

Falls are a major problem for elderly living independently. The World Health Organization
reports that injuries due to falls are the third most common cause of chronic disability. We …

Our modern societies are suffering the increase of elderly population while at the same time
social security and health costs must be cut down. In order to avoid the need of special care …

A novel approach for the detection of falls, the analysis of body postures, mobility and
metabolic energy expenditure of elderly people has been developed. It is based on a …