Fall Detection Method Based on Acceleration Sensor
Hisayoshi Endo, Yusuke Enomoto, Dai Hanawa, Kimio Oguchi · 2009
Societies are aging around the world. Elderly people are falling more often leading to serious injury or death. Therefore, it is important to detect falls immediately even in private houses. Detecting falls by sensors worn by the aged is a powerful approach that is being actively researched because the sensors are cheap and light, and can provide real time response. This research proposes and experimentally evaluates a template method that can process the data output by a 3-axis acceleration sensor to detect falls reliably.