A New Way to Detect Accidental Falls
From: IEEE Institute - 10/21/2013
By: Monica Rozenfeld

Sensors on walls could be a faster way to send out an alert for help

Two IEEE members from the department of electrical and computer engineering
at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, have developed a wireless
network of sensors that detect when a person has fallen. Unlike present
systems, it would not require a person to wear a sensor, push a button, or
install a video camera to send an alert.

Read the entire article at:
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-topic/a-new-way-to-detect-accidental-falls

Links:
Neal Patwari
http://faculty.utah.edu/u0544128-Neal_Patwari/biography/index.hml

Sensing and Processing Across Networks at Utah
http://span.ece.utah.edu/neal-patwari

Fall Detection
http://span.ece.utah.edu/fall

Fall detection using RF sensor networks
http://span.ece.utah.edu/uploads/mager-pimrc2013.pdf

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