Nowadays society is moving to a scenery where autonomous elderly live alone in their houses. An automatic remote monitoring system using wearable and ambient sensors is becoming even more important, and is a challenge for the future in WSNs, AAL, and Home Automation areas. Relating to this, one of the most critical events for the safety and the health of the elderly is the fall. Lot of methods, applications, and stand-alone devices have been presented so far. This work proposes a novel method based on the Support Vector Machine technique and addressed to Android low-cost smartphones. Our method starts from data acquired from accelerometer and magnetometer, now available in all the low-end devices, and uses a set of features extracted from a processing of the two signals. After an initial training, the classification of fall events and non-fall events is performed by the Support Vector Machine algorithm. Since we have decided to use the smartphone as monitoring device, the use of other invasive wearable sensors is avoided, and the user have simply to hold the phone on his pocket. Moreover, we can use the cellular network for the eventual sending of notifications and alerts to relatives in case of falls. Actually, our tests show a good performance with a sensitivity of 99.3% and a specificity of 96%.

SVM-based fall detection method for elderly people using Android low-cost smartphones / Pierleoni, Paola; Pernini, Luca; Belli, Alberto; Palma, Lorenzo; Valenti, Simone; Paniccia, Michele. - ELETTRONICO. - (2015), pp. 1-5. (Intervento presentato al convegno 10th IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2015 tenutosi a Zadar, Croatia nel 13-15 April 2015) [10.1109/SAS.2015.7133642].

SVM-based fall detection method for elderly people using Android low-cost smartphones

Pierleoni, Paola;Pernini, Luca;Belli, Alberto;Palma, Lorenzo;Valenti, Simone;
2015-01-01

Abstract

Nowadays society is moving to a scenery where autonomous elderly live alone in their houses. An automatic remote monitoring system using wearable and ambient sensors is becoming even more important, and is a challenge for the future in WSNs, AAL, and Home Automation areas. Relating to this, one of the most critical events for the safety and the health of the elderly is the fall. Lot of methods, applications, and stand-alone devices have been presented so far. This work proposes a novel method based on the Support Vector Machine technique and addressed to Android low-cost smartphones. Our method starts from data acquired from accelerometer and magnetometer, now available in all the low-end devices, and uses a set of features extracted from a processing of the two signals. After an initial training, the classification of fall events and non-fall events is performed by the Support Vector Machine algorithm. Since we have decided to use the smartphone as monitoring device, the use of other invasive wearable sensors is avoided, and the user have simply to hold the phone on his pocket. Moreover, we can use the cellular network for the eventual sending of notifications and alerts to relatives in case of falls. Actually, our tests show a good performance with a sensitivity of 99.3% and a specificity of 96%.
2015
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