State of the Art: A Study on Fall Detection

Unintentional falls are rife throughout the ages and have been the common factor of serious or critical injuries especially for the elderly society. Fortunately, owing to the recent rapid advancement in technology, fall detection system is made possible, enabling detection of falling events for the elderly, monitoring the patient and consequently provides emergency support in the event of falling. This paper presents a review of 3 main categories of fall detection techniques, ranging from year 2005 to year 2010. This paper will be focusing on discussing the techniques alongside with summary and conclusion for them.

Authors:

• Goh Yongli
• Ooi Shih Yin
• Pang Ying Han

Keywords:

• State of the art
• fall detection
• wearable devices
• ambient analyser
• motion detection.

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