TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Wireless fall sensor with GPS location for monitoring the elderly
JO  - Conference proceedings - IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society
A1  - Campo, Eric
A1  - Grangereau, Etienne
SP  - 498
EP  - 501
VL  - 1
IS  - 
N2  - Falls of the elderly has become a major public health problem in our modern society. It is both the first cause of accidental death, but also the beginning of the loss of autonomy from these people. In this context, the paper describes a solution based on an energy-efficient embedded device capable of detecting the fall, to send a warning to a control and monitoring processing station and to locate the person in a close external environment. Fall detection, location, processing and signal analysis, and data transmission are provided by an accelerometer, a GPS receiver, a microcontroller and a Zigbee technology transceiver.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1557-170X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -