Healthcare System for Non-invasive Fall Detection in Indoor Environment
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Fall incidents and the sustained injuries represent the main causes of accidents for elderly people, and also the third cause of chronic disability. The rapid detection of a fall event can reduce the mortality risk, avoiding also the aggravation of injuries. In this paper an embedded healthcare system based on a microwave radar is presented. A Continuous Wave (CW) Doppler radar is used to detect the changes in speed of different persons experienced during daily activities, namely falling and normal/random movements. The resulted speed signals are then processed in real-time by a digital signal processor (DSP) in order to detect fall incidents. Experimental results, conducted on real human volunteers in a real room setting, have shown a success rate of 100% in detecting fall events. Moreover, no false positives have been reported.
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