Verification of Fall Detection Sensor

Tadahiro Hasegawa; Hiroki Yokota

doi:10.20965/jrm.2012.p1089

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JRM Vol.24 No.6 pp. 1089-1091

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2012.p1089

(2012)

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Verification of Fall Detection Sensor

Tadahiro Hasegawa and Hiroki Yokota

Shibaura Institute of Technology, 3-7-5 Toyosu, Kohto-ku, Tokyo 135-8548, Japan

Received:

September 28, 2011

Accepted:

August 28, 2012

Published:

December 20, 2012

Keywords:

fall-detection, pulse wave, accelerometer, angular velocity

Abstract

We report about a fall-detection sensor system that detects the beginning of a fall. The fall-detection sensor system monitors the human pulse as a vital sign, acceleration, and angular velocity. The fall-detection algorithm using these signals enables us to detect the beginning of a fall correctly. Especially, the fall detection algorithm using the vital sign was able to distinguish between a case in which persons did not fall down due to keep their balance although the fall began and a case in which persons fell.

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T. Hasegawa and H. Yokota, “Verification of Fall Detection Sensor,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.24, No.6, pp. 1089-1091, 2012.

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[2] [2] A. Diaz et al., “Preliminary evaluation of a full-time falling monitor for the elderly,” 26th Annual Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEMBS’04), pp. 2180-2183, 2004.

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