Wearable Fall Detector for Elderly People

Autor: Vikash Kumar, Sherli Subhiksa, Visnu Rajhan, Meeradevi T, S. Ramesh
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Innovations in Information and Communication Technology Series. :108-111
DOI: 10.46532/978-81-950008-1-4_022
Popis: Now a days, most of the elderly person live in home alone. In their day to day living, some activities likely to have some accidents, such as fall. If the fall is unobserved for a longer period, it may lead to severe health trauma or even leads to death. According to the insights announced in National Safety Council, they are the subsequent driving reason for unexpected passing assessing 424000 passing worldwide. The objective of this paper is to develop a device that detects the fall event of the elderly person and intimate to the family members about the event. A call will be made automatically to the contact number provided in the fall detector application installed in the smart phone. It can accompany elderly people both indoors and outdoors in contrast to ambient devices. Computation of this method is simple and it is possible to implement in small size, so it can be easily carried by the elderly people. It can be afforded by
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