Ubiquitous Fall Detection and Activity Recognition System for Bathrooms
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Abstract:
Falls are the most frequent external cause of death for older adults, where bathrooms are a particulary dangerous environment. We propose an autonomous, ubiquitous, low-cost fall detection system based on ultrasonic and piezoelectric sensors, which takes into account privacy concerns as well as bathroom-specific hazardous environmental influences to technology. The system was implemented and tested in a real-world scenario. Request publication as PDF
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Ubiquitous Fall Detection and Activity Recognition System for Bathrooms (Carsten Rachuy, Joachim Clemens, Kerstin Schill), In Assistive Technology: From Research to Practice: AAATE 2013, IOS Press, volume 33, 2013.
Bibtex Entry:
@InProceedings{Rachuy2013,
  author    = {Rachuy, Carsten and Clemens, Joachim and Schill, Kerstin},
  title     = {Ubiquitous Fall Detection and Activity Recognition System for Bathrooms},
  booktitle = {Assistive Technology: From Research to Practice: AAATE 2013},
  year      = {2013},
  volume    = {33},
  number    = {Assistive Technology: From Research to Practice},
  pages     = {95--100},
  publisher = {IOS Press},
  abstract  = {Falls are the most frequent external cause of death for older adults, where bathrooms are a particulary dangerous environment. We propose an autonomous, ubiquitous, low-cost fall detection system based on ultrasonic and piezoelectric sensors, which takes into account privacy concerns as well as bathroom-specific hazardous environmental influences to technology. The system was implemented and tested in a real-world scenario.
Request publication as PDF},
  doi       = {10.3233/978-1-61499-304-9-95},
  issn      = {1383-813X},
  journal   = {Assistive Technology Research Series},
  url       = {10.3233/978-1-61499-304-9-95">http://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-304-9-95},
}