Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System

Fall detection is a major challenge in the public healthcare domain, especially for the elderly as the decline of their physical fitness, and timely and reliable surveillance is necessary to mitigate the negative effects of falls. This paper develops a novel fall detection system based on a wearable...

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Main Authors:	Wu, Falin, Zhao, Hengyang, Zhao, Yan, Zhong, Haibo
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4346101/

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spelling	pubmed-43461012015-03-17 Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System Wu, Falin Zhao, Hengyang Zhao, Yan Zhong, Haibo Research Article Fall detection is a major challenge in the public healthcare domain, especially for the elderly as the decline of their physical fitness, and timely and reliable surveillance is necessary to mitigate the negative effects of falls. This paper develops a novel fall detection system based on a wearable device. The system monitors the movements of human body, recognizes a fall from normal daily activities by an effective quaternion algorithm, and automatically sends request for help to the caregivers with the patient's location. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4346101/ /pubmed/25784933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/576364 Text en Copyright © 2015 Falin Wu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Wu, Falin Zhao, Hengyang Zhao, Yan Zhong, Haibo
spellingShingle	Wu, Falin Zhao, Hengyang Zhao, Yan Zhong, Haibo Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System
author_facet	Wu, Falin Zhao, Hengyang Zhao, Yan Zhong, Haibo
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title	Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System
title_short	Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System
title_full	Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System
title_fullStr	Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System
title_full_unstemmed	Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System
title_sort	development of a wearable-sensor-based fall detection system
description	Fall detection is a major challenge in the public healthcare domain, especially for the elderly as the decline of their physical fitness, and timely and reliable surveillance is necessary to mitigate the negative effects of falls. This paper develops a novel fall detection system based on a wearable device. The system monitors the movements of human body, recognizes a fall from normal daily activities by an effective quaternion algorithm, and automatically sends request for help to the caregivers with the patient's location.
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate	2015
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4346101/
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Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System

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