A survey of IoT-based fall detection for aiding elderly care: Sensors, methods, challenges and future trends

ME Karar, HI Shehata, O Reyad - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remote monitoring of a fall condition or activities and daily life (ADL) of elderly patients has
become one of the essential purposes for modern telemedicine. Internet of Things (IoT) and …

Hardware for recognition of human activities: A review of smart home and AAL related technologies

A Sanchez-Comas, K Synnes, J Hallberg - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Activity recognition (AR) from an applied perspective of ambient assisted living (AAL) and
smart homes (SH) has become a subject of great interest. Promising a better quality of life …

A study on the application of convolutional neural networks to fall detection evaluated with multiple public datasets

E Casilari, R Lora-Rivera, F García-Lagos - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to the repercussion of falls on both the health and self-sufficiency of older people and
on the financial sustainability of healthcare systems, the study of wearable fall detection …

[HTML][HTML] Web-based telepresence exercise program for community-dwelling elderly women with a high risk of falling: randomized controlled trial

J Hong, HJ Kong, HJ Yoon - JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2018 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background: While physical exercise is known to help prevent falls in the elderly, bad
weather and long distance between the home and place of exercise represent substantial …

A study of the use of gyroscope measurements in wearable fall detection systems

E Casilari, M Álvarez-Marco, F García-Lagos - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to the serious impact of falls on the quality of life of the elderly and on the economical
sustainability of health systems, the study of new monitoring systems capable of …

[HTML][HTML] An analytical comparison of datasets of real-world and simulated falls intended for the evaluation of wearable fall alerting systems

E Casilari, CA Silva - Measurement, 2022 - Elsevier
Automatic Fall detection is one of the most promising applications of wearables in the field of
mobile health. The characterization of the effectiveness of wearable fall detectors is …

A comprehensive study on the use of artificial neural networks in wearable fall detection systems

E Casilari-Pérez, F García-Lagos - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
As a result of the challenge posed by demographic aging and the important personal and
medical costs associated to falls of elderly people, the study of automatic Fall Detection …

[HTML][HTML] A dataset build using wearable inertial measurement and ECG sensors for activity recognition, fall detection and basic heart anomaly detection system

A Nadeem, A Mehmood, K Rizwan - Data in brief, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper defines two major data sets 1) from wearable inertial measurement sensors and
2) wearable ECG SHIMMER™ sensors. The first dataset is devised to benchmark …

[HTML][HTML] A study of the influence of the sensor sampling frequency on the performance of wearable fall detectors

JA Santoyo-Ramón, E Casilari, JM Cano-García - Measurement, 2022 - Elsevier
Last decade has witnessed a major research interest on wearable fall detection systems.
Sampling rate in these detectors strongly affects the power consumption and required …

Activity recognition of stroke‐affected people using wearable sensor

A David, R Ramadoss, A Ramachandran… - ETRI …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stroke is one of the leading causes of long‐term disability worldwide, placing huge burdens
on individuals and society. Further, automatic human activity recognition is a challenging …