Implementation of wearable sensors for fall detection into smart household

Author

Biros, Ondrej ; Karchnak, Jan ; Simsik, Dusan ; Hosovsky, Alexander

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom., Tech. Univ. of Kosice, Kosice, Slovakia

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

22

Abstract

The proposed paper describes implementation of wearable sensors into smart household environment. Wearable sensor prototype is based on MEMS inertial measurement unit, containing accelerometer and gyroscope. Fall detection using wearable sensors has been determined as suitable function in several implementations. Fall detection algorithm, considering information about acceleration, tilt and angular velocity was developed and tested. Communication of IMU with PC is described as well as experimental verification of the algorithm.

Keywords

accelerometers; biomechanics; biomedical equipment; gyroscopes; intelligent sensors; microsensors; motion measurement; wireless sensor networks; MEMS inertial measurement unit; acceleration; accelerometer; angular velocity; fall detection; gyroscope; smart household; tilt; wearable sensors; Acceleration; Angular velocity; Micromechanical devices; Monitoring; Wearable sensors; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI), 2014 IEEE 12th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Herl´any

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3441-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAMI.2014.6822406

Filename

6822406