Development of a real-time, simple and high-accuracy fall detection system for elderly using 3-DOF accelerometers

P Van Thanh, DT Tran, DC Nguyen, N Duc Anh… - Arabian Journal for …, 2019 - Springer
Falls represent a major problem for the elderly people aged 60 or above. There are many
monitoring systems which are currently available to detect the fall. However, there is a great …

A simply fall-detection algorithm using accelerometers on a smartphone

E Thammasat, J Chaicharn - The 5th 2012 Biomedical …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Every year, several thousands of elderly people experience with falling accident. Falling is
then a main problem about healthiness of elders. This paper tries to find out a simple …

Triaxial accelerometer-based real time fall event detection

Y Hou, N Li, Z Huang - … on Information Society (i-Society 2012), 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Falls in older people and the injuries are a major problem for their welfare, confidence and
happiness and represent a public health burden on health care cost. In this study, an …

Reliable fall detection system using an 3-DOF accelerometer and cascade posture recognitions

TD Tan, N Van Tinh - Signal and Information Processing …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An unintentional fall can make injure to elderly. This paper aims to develop a portable and
efficient device to monitor the falls in the elderly population by integrating a micro controller …

Development of a fall detection algorithm based on a tri-axial accelerometer

Y Yang, X Zhao - 2011 4th International Conference on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The elder population are at high risk of having a falling accident. Once it happens, timely
assistance can dramatically reduce the damage. Obviously, real-time and accurate fall …

A direction-sensitive fall detection system using single 3D accelerometer and learning classifier

F Hossain, ML Ali, MZ Islam… - … Conference on Medical …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rate of fall incidence among the elderly people is ever increasing. It is at the sixth
position in the list of causes of death for the people aged between 60 and 65; the second …

Accelerometer-based fall detection using feature extraction and support vector machine algorithms

KH Chen, JJ Yang, FS Jaw - Instrumentation Science & Technology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Falls by the elderly may result in hip fractures, paraplegia, and even death. Hence, over the
past few decades, considerable research has been conducted on fall detection. Here, an …

[PDF][PDF] A review on wearable tri-axial accelerometer based fall detectors

S Kulkarni, M Basu - J. Biomed. Eng. Technol, 2013 - Citeseer
Falling is the crucial concern in elder adults which can result into serious injury or rupture of
bones especially hip bone injury or other joint fractures. Hence fall detection is necessary to …

Real-time fall detecting system using a tri-axial accelerometer for home care

CC Lan, YH Hsueh, RY Hu - 2012 International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There has been a considerable increase in the population proportion of senior people
among global population. Fall often happens among these senior people, which is also the …

Fall detection prototype for Thai elderly in mobile computing era

M Kaenampornpan, T Anuchad… - The 8th Electrical …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In Thailand, it is very common for people to own at least one mobile phone. This is also the
ease for elderly people. They tend to feel that mobile phone is necessary for their safety and …