Potential Usage of Smartphone Inertial Sensors in Healthcare Applications
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The increasing availability of the smartphones on one hand and the necessity to improve healthcare on the other hand, are encouraging the development of smartphone healthcare applications. In this paper an idea of transforming the smartphone into a healthcare device capable of recognizing everyday activities and detection of fall events is presented. This approach firstly use inertial sensors data as an input, then the data is preprocessed and segmented, and finally artificial intelligence methods are applied which recognize the user's activity and detect a fall event. The thorough evaluation of the methods showed that it is possible to achieve satisfactory performance for both tasks using only one inertial sensor embedded in a smartphone.
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