Title: An enhanced, efficient and affordable wearable elderly monitoring system with fall detection and indoor localisation

Authors: Ch. Vineeth; J. Anudeep; G. Kowshik; Shriram K. Vasudevan

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India ' Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India ' Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India ' K. Ramakrishnan College of Technology, Kariyamanikam Road, Samayapuram, Trichy – 621112, India

Abstract: According to the statistics of National Council on Aging (NCOA) nowadays, the rate of death among old-aged people has reached a critical state that, for every 11 seconds an older adult is being treated for a fall and for every 19 minutes a death is reported. Hence, it is obvious that an innovation is required to detect these falls in the elderly to provide them timely treatment. We have built a wearable device for the fall detection. The wearable device can detect falls indoor and outdoor. Also, we provide exact location of fall, health attributes of the user to the caretaker and with hospital suggestions. Indoor localisation is also implemented. Importantly, without any wearables or camera, the rest room falls have been identified in an innovative yet economical way.

Keywords: fall detection; old age support; IoT for medicine; old-aged tracking system; Android app; bathroom fall; indoor localisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2021.114891

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2021 Vol.13 No.3, pp.254 - 268

Received: 20 Mar 2019
Accepted: 24 Jun 2019

Published online: 11 May 2021 *

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