Assistive Technology for Fall Detection Development of Integrated Wearable Sensor to Smart Home System
Resumo
Fall detection is an assistive technology for elderly people that helps in emergency situations. This work presents the development of a wearable device to detect falls connected to a ultra low power wireless network. The device is connected to a smart home system to trigger alarms when events are detected. The fall detection is done by a threshold algorithm based on data fusion from inertial sensors. The wearable sensor is based on EnOcean protocol, which includes a wireless connection with a smart home system, according to the KNX standard, through the Home Assistant platform. The tests were performed in a prototype and the results include the evaluation of fall and nonfall movements in two different body characteristics. The results revealed sensitivity and specificity of up to 96% and 100%, respectively.
Palavras-chave:
EnOcean, KNX, Wearable sensor, Sensor Fusion, Fall Detection
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EnOcean. (2020) Enocean: Ultra-low power management. [Online]. Available: https://www.enocean.com/en/technology/energy-harvesting-wireless/
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L. Parsons, R. Ross, and K. Robert, “A survey on wireless sensor network technologies in pest management applications,” SN Applied Sciences, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 28, 2020.
KNX-Association. (2020) Serial data transmission and knx protocol documentation. [Online]. Available: [link]
S. A. Navarro-Tuch, M. R. Bustamante-Bello, A. Molina, J. Izquierdo-Reyes, R. Avila-Vazquez, J. L. Pablos-Hach, and Y. Gutiérrez-Martínez, “Inhabitable space control for the creation of healthy interactive spaces through emotional domotics,” International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1337–1347, 2018.
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Publicado
22/11/2021
Como Citar
TORRES, Guilherme Gerzon; VALADÃO, Yuri das Neves; CRUZ, Tiago Rodrigo; MÜLLER, Ivan.
Assistive Technology for Fall Detection Development of Integrated Wearable Sensor to Smart Home System. In: TRABALHOS EM ANDAMENTO - SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS COMPUTACIONAIS (SBESC), 11. , 2021, Evento Online.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2021
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p. 140-145.
ISSN 2763-9002.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbesc_estendido.2021.18506.
