A Smartphone to Keep the Elderly Safe
From: Wireless Design Magazine - 05/31/2016

In search of a way to reduce seniors' rate of falling, Gray-Miceli
collaborated with William Craelius, a bioengineering professor at Rutgers'
School of Engineering, to create a tool that would assess balance during
daily living activities, such as standing up, sitting down and walking. 
Under Craelius's supervison, students programmed an app, developed by
visiting professor Nicki Newby, that used sensors in a strapped-on smartphone
to measure body movements like sway, jerkiness, or acceleration, which can
trigger loss of balance. The app detects the rate of changes in movements
using a gyroscope, part of the smartphone technology.

The researchers found that isolating movement patterns immediately before a
change in balance could help predict when a person is about to fall.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2016/05/smartphone-keep-elderly-safe

Links:
Deanna Gray-Miceli
http://www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/about_us/members.asp?v=2&i=766

William Craelius
http://bme.rutgers.edu/william-craelius