A smart sensor to detect the falls of the elderly

By A. Sixsmith, N. Johnson. IEEE pervasive computing, 2004

426 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

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Citations in the corpus

Distributed recognition of human actions using wearable motion sensor networks (2009, positive): “One dominant application in the past has been single action detection for elderly people, such as falling [7,9,28,30] and walking [3,25].”
Internet of Things: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications (2017, methodology): “[79] used low cost infrared sensor array technology, which can provide information such as the location, size, and velocity of a target object.”
Robust Video Surveillance for Fall Detection Based on Human Shape Deformation (2011, methodology): “The 2-D (image) velocity of the person has also been used to detect falls [10], [12].”
Intelligent Assistive Technology Applications to Dementia Care: Current Capabilities, Limitations, and Future Challenges (2009, methodology): “31,32 The Smart Inactivity Monitor using Array-Based Detec-tors Project deploys wall-mounted low-cost, array-based passive infrared sensors to detect inactivity and falls.”
Fall detection system using Kinect’s infrared sensor (2014, background): “Thermal cameras are also used to locate and track a thermal target and analyse its motion to detect a fall’s characteristic dynamics and then to monitor target’s inactivity [26].”
A survey on fall detection: Principles and approaches (2013, methodology): “in [23] for the design of a wearable system called Smart Inactivity Monitor using Array-Based Detectors (SIMBAD).”
Survey on Fall Detection and Fall Prevention Using Wearable and External Sensors (2014, methodology): “([36,37]) introduced a fall detection system based on Pyroelectric IR sensor arrays.”
Pervasive Healthcare and Wireless Health Monitoring (2007, background): “There has been some work in falls detection by using an array of infrared sensors [73].”
Thermal cameras and applications: a survey (2013, background): “Sixsmith and Johnson [164] proposed a system that uses a low resolution thermal sensor.”
A Smart and Passive Floor-Vibration Based Fall Detector for Elderly (2006, methodology): “SIMBAD [8] uses a low-cost array of infrared detectors to capture low-resolution blurry image of the resident and then analyzes the subject's motion to detect a fall event.”
An intrusion detection and prevention system in cloud computing: A systematic review (2013, methodology): “, 2006), and Sixsmith & Johnson tried to improve the quality of sensors to detect more intrusions (Smith and Johnson, 2004).”
Stretchable, Transparent, Ultrasensitive, and Patchable Strain Sensor for Human-Machine Interfaces Comprising a Nanohybrid of Carbon Nanotubes and Conductive Elastomers. (2015, background): “Detection of strains induced on human skin using patchable conformal strain sensors is one approach to monitor human emotions,(8) intentions, and activities.(2,9,10)”
Fall Detection from Human Shape and Motion History Using Video Surveillance (2007, background): “Another advantage of such a system is that a camera gives more information on the motion of a person and his/her actions than an accelerometer.”