An Enhanced Fall Detection System for Elderly Person Monitoring using Consumer Home Networks

Author(s):  
LakshmiPriyanka Devi.M ◽  
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T. Ravi kumar ◽  
Girish Kumar PVR
2014 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Wang ◽  
Zhongqi Zhang ◽  
Bin Li ◽  
Sungyoung Lee ◽  
R. Simon Sherratt

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadik Gharghan ◽  
Saleem Mohammed ◽  
Ali Al-Naji ◽  
Mahmood Abu-AlShaeer ◽  
Haider Jawad ◽  
...  

Falls are the main source of injury for elderly patients with epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. Elderly people who carry battery powered health monitoring systems can move unhindered from one place to another according to their activities, thus improving their quality of life. This paper aims to detect when an elderly individual falls and to provide accurate location of the incident while the individual is moving in indoor environments such as in houses, medical health care centers, and hospitals. Fall detection is accurately determined based on a proposed sensor-based fall detection algorithm, whereas the localization of the elderly person is determined based on an artificial neural network (ANN). In addition, the power consumption of the fall detection system (FDS) is minimized based on a data-driven algorithm. Results show that an elderly fall can be detected with accuracy levels of 100% and 92.5% for line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments, respectively. In addition, elderly indoor localization error is improved with a mean absolute error of 0.0094 and 0.0454 m for LOS and NLOS, respectively, after the application of the ANN optimization technique. Moreover, the battery life of the FDS is improved relative to conventional implementation due to reduced computational effort. The proposed FDS outperforms existing systems in terms of fall detection accuracy, localization errors, and power consumption.


Author(s):  
K Srikanth

Abstract: Healthcare is one of the most important industries, yet new ideas must travel a long way before being fully adopted due to its complexity, scope of duty, and stringent laws. The Internet of Things (IoT) may be the key to resolving healthcare challenges. The Internet of Things (IoT) has a lot of potential in healthcare, but it's still in its early stages. With the advancement of medical IoT, new possibilities for telemedicine, remote monitoring of a patient's status, and much more will emerge. Falling is a significant health danger for the elderly. If the problem is not detected in a timely manner, it can result in the death or impairment of the elderly, lowering their quality of life. Falls are a major public health concern for the elderly around the world. When it comes to old age, we must keep an eye on our loved ones to ensure their health and safety. It is therefore critical to determine if an elderly person has fallen so that help can be provided promptly. Proposing a person fall detection system based on a wearable device for detecting the falls of people in every situation, which takes advantage of lowpower wireless sensor networks, smart devices, and analyses human body motions. The system detects movement using an accelerometer and a gyro sensor. The sensor is wired to a microprocessor, which transmits the acceleration data continuously. Fall detection and sudden movement changes in the person would be monitored by the system. The sensors are getting values from a quick movement shift with shock in the system. When a person falls and becomes unconscious, the system determines whether the person has indeed fallen. If the person has truly fallen, the system will send an alert to the caregivers and sound an alarm to alert anyone nearby. When the system detects that a person has fallen, it immediately sends an alert to the individual's care takers. It is an IoT-based fall detection system that assists people by telling their caregivers about their fall so that quick attention may be drawn to the situation and essential actions can be taken to save the person who has fallen. Keywords: Threshold Based Fall Detection, Arduino, Bi-Axial, Accelerometer, Gyroscope,


2011 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Tajima ◽  
Takehiko Abe ◽  
Haruhiko Kimura

Author(s):  
Sagar Chhetri ◽  
Abeer Alsadoon ◽  
Thair Al‐Dala'in ◽  
P. W. C. Prasad ◽  
Tarik A. Rashid ◽  
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