This paper presents information on a portable fall detection and alerting system mainly consisting of a custom vest and a mobile smart phone. A wearable motion detection sensor integrated with tri-axial accelerometer,...This paper presents information on a portable fall detection and alerting system mainly consisting of a custom vest and a mobile smart phone. A wearable motion detection sensor integrated with tri-axial accelerometer, gyroscope and Bluetooth is built into a custom vest worn by elderly. The vest can capture the reluctant acceleration and angular velocity about the activities of daily living(ADLs) of elderly in real time. The data via Bluetooth is then sent to a mobile smart phone running a fall detection program based on k-NN algorithm. When a fall occurs the phone can alert a family member or health care center through a call or emergent text message using a built in Global Positioning System. The experimental results show that the system discriminates falls from ADLs with a sensitivity of 95%, and a specificity of 96.67%. This system can provide remote monitoring and timely help for the elderly.展开更多
Falls are a major cause of disability and even death in the elderly,and fall detection can effectively reduce the damage.Compared with cameras and wearable sensors,Wi-Fi devices can protect user privacy and are inexpe...Falls are a major cause of disability and even death in the elderly,and fall detection can effectively reduce the damage.Compared with cameras and wearable sensors,Wi-Fi devices can protect user privacy and are inexpensive and easy to deploy.Wi-Fi devices sense user activity by analyzing the channel state information(CSI)of the received signal,which makes fall detection possible.We propose a fall detection system based on commercial Wi-Fi devices which achieves good performance.In the feature extraction stage,we select the discrete wavelet transform(DWT)spectrum as the feature for activity classification,which can balance the temporal and spatial resolution.In the feature classification stage,we design a deep learning model based on convolutional neural networks,which has better performance compared with other traditional machine learning models.Experimental results show our work achieves a false alarm rate of 4.8%and a missed alarm rate of 1.9%.展开更多
基金supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under grant No. 4102005partly supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 61040039)
文摘This paper presents information on a portable fall detection and alerting system mainly consisting of a custom vest and a mobile smart phone. A wearable motion detection sensor integrated with tri-axial accelerometer, gyroscope and Bluetooth is built into a custom vest worn by elderly. The vest can capture the reluctant acceleration and angular velocity about the activities of daily living(ADLs) of elderly in real time. The data via Bluetooth is then sent to a mobile smart phone running a fall detection program based on k-NN algorithm. When a fall occurs the phone can alert a family member or health care center through a call or emergent text message using a built in Global Positioning System. The experimental results show that the system discriminates falls from ADLs with a sensitivity of 95%, and a specificity of 96.67%. This system can provide remote monitoring and timely help for the elderly.
文摘Falls are a major cause of disability and even death in the elderly,and fall detection can effectively reduce the damage.Compared with cameras and wearable sensors,Wi-Fi devices can protect user privacy and are inexpensive and easy to deploy.Wi-Fi devices sense user activity by analyzing the channel state information(CSI)of the received signal,which makes fall detection possible.We propose a fall detection system based on commercial Wi-Fi devices which achieves good performance.In the feature extraction stage,we select the discrete wavelet transform(DWT)spectrum as the feature for activity classification,which can balance the temporal and spatial resolution.In the feature classification stage,we design a deep learning model based on convolutional neural networks,which has better performance compared with other traditional machine learning models.Experimental results show our work achieves a false alarm rate of 4.8%and a missed alarm rate of 1.9%.