Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS) to improve fall detection

Real-time locating systems (RTLS) in healthcare: a condensed primer

Real-time locating systems (RTLS, also known as real-time location systems) have become an important component of many existing ubiquitous location aware systems. While GPS (global positioning system) has been quite successful as an outdoor real-time locating solution, it fails to repeat this success indoors. A number of RTLS technologies have been used to solve indoor tracking problems. The ab...

Anwendung von Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) in der Sicherungstechnik

Die Positionsbestimmung von Personen und Objekten ist die Basis unterschiedlichster Applikationen der Sicherungstechnik. So unterschiedlich wie die Anwendungen sind auch die Verfahren und Technologien, die dabei zum Einsatz kommen. Für den Außenbereich werden häufig Satellitenortungssysteme wie GPS eingesetzt. Im Innenraumbereich sind diese aufgrund der Signalabschwächung in der Regel nicht nut...

Fall-MobileGuard: a Smart Real-Time Fall Detection System

This paper proposes Fall-MobileGuard, a novel real-time non-invasive fall detection and alarm notification system. The proposed system, in particular, is able to recognize different types of falls and is based on a wearable inertial sensor node, equipped with a tri-axial accelerometer, worn at the waist and a personal mobile device. The detection method consists of two main processing blocks; t...

Real Time Location Sensing (RTLS) using Passive RFID tags

RAReFall - Real-time activity recognition and fall detection system

This demo paper presents the RAReFall system, which is a real-time activity recognition and fall detection system. It is tuned for robustness and real-time performance by combining human-understandable rules and classifiers trained with machine learning algorithms. The system consists of two wearable accelerometers sewn into elastic sports-wear, placed on the abdomen and the right thigh. The re...