Title
Fall detection monitoring system with position detection for elderly at indoor environments under supervision
Abstract
We propose a fall detection monitoring system with the identification of the acident location for the elderly under care in indoor environments. The main objective of the system is to reduce the time until emergency personnel responds to falls, especially when the victim is unconscious or delirious. Reducing the response time to initiate the appropriate patient care may imply simultaneously in reductions of morbidity and mortality rates. The proposed system can be introduced in hospitals, asylums or nursing home environments rapidly and with low cost. The fall is detected using an embedded accelerometer and the location is identified using Zigbee transceivers (a Zigbee Network is employed for issuing the alarms). The results show a high success rate in the fall detection and provide input to design the Zigbee network to offer the required accuracy on the identification of the location of the fall in terms of the room where it had occurred.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/LATINCOM.2016.7811576
2016 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fall Detection,Location,Accelerometer,WSN,e-Health
Transceiver,Monitoring system,Accelerometer,Computer security,Computer science,Response time,Patient care,Wireless sensor network
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2330-989X
978-1-5090-5138-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4