Elderly fall detection systems: A literature survey

X Wang, J Ellul, G Azzopardi - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Falling is among the most damaging event elderly people may experience. With the ever-
growing aging population, there is an urgent need for the development of fall detection …

Human activity recognition using inertial sensors in a smartphone: An overview

W Sousa Lima, E Souto, K El-Khatib, R Jalali, J Gama - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ubiquity of smartphones and the growth of computing resources, such as connectivity,
processing, portability, and power of sensing, have greatly changed people's lives. Today …

A smart healthcare monitoring system for heart disease prediction based on ensemble deep learning and feature fusion

F Ali, S El-Sappagh, SMR Islam, D Kwak, A Ali… - Information …, 2020 - Elsevier
The accurate prediction of heart disease is essential to efficiently treating cardiac patients
before a heart attack occurs. This goal can be achieved using an optimal machine learning …

A survey on recent advances in wearable fall detection systems

A Ramachandran, A Karuppiah - BioMed research international, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With advances in medicine and healthcare systems, the average life expectancy of human
beings has increased to more than 80 yrs. As a result, the demographic old‐age …

Human activity recognition with accelerometer and gyroscope: A data fusion approach

M Webber, RF Rojas - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper compares the three levels of data fusion with the goal of determining the optimal
level of data fusion for multi-sensor human activity data. Using the data processing pipeline …

Spatiotemporal event detection: A review

M Yu, M Bambacus, G Cervone, K Clarke… - … Journal of Digital …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The advancements of sensing technologies, including remote sensing, in situ sensing,
social sensing, and health sensing, have tremendously improved our capability to observe …

Possible life saver: A review on human fall detection technology

Z Wang, V Ramamoorthy, U Gal, A Guez - Robotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Among humans, falls are a serious health problem causing severe injuries and even death
for the elderly population. Besides, falls are also a major safety threat to bikers, skiers …

Fall detection system using millimeter-wave radar based on neural network and information fusion

Y Yao, C Liu, H Zhang, B Yan, P Jian… - IEEE Internet of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Falls are fatal for the elderly, and timely detection after falls is crucial. As a contactless
device, the radar sensor can monitor users' falls with the advantage of not revealing their …

Accelerometer-based fall detection using machine learning: Training and testing on real-world falls

L Palmerini, J Klenk, C Becker, L Chiari - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Falling is a significant health problem. Fall detection, to alert for medical attention, has been
gaining increasing attention. Still, most of the existing studies use falls simulated in a …

Comparison of different sets of features for human activity recognition by wearable sensors

S Rosati, G Balestra, M Knaflitz - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) refers to an emerging area of interest for medical,
military, and security applications. However, the identification of the features to be used for …