A Device to Prevent Falls in the Elderly
From: Medical Design Technology - 01/20/2014

The EPFL spin-off Gait Up just put an extremely thin motion sensor on the
market. It can detect the risk of a fall in an older person and is equally
useful for sports and physical therapy.

Physilog, a device developed by Gait Up that is only 9 mm thick, enables a
quantitative evaluation of gait parameters. According to its designers, it is
the thinnest mobile sensor of its kind in the world. Recently commercialized,
it is usable by everyone. It works like a miniature laboratory through
inertial sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, with other tiny
sensors. It starts with the mere press of a finger. This microtechnological
device can record in one minute ten spatiotemporal gait parameters associated
with fall risk, which are then analyzed. Specific algorithms have been
developed for comparison with the normal values of the population and,
thereby, detecting problems.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/01/device-prevent-falls-elderly

Links:
Gait Up
http://www.gaitup.com/

Physilog 4
http://www.gaitup.com/2013/05/blog-blog/