Wearable Fall Detection System For Elderly People Using Iot

  • Dr.V.Sakthivel, Ms.R.Naveena, Ms.S.Suhana, Ms.P.Myvizhi

Abstract

Each year an estimated 6,46,000 individuals die from falls globally of which over 80% are in low- and middle-income countries. Older people have the highest risk of death or serious injury arising from a fall and the risk increases with age. In our paper, we proposed the fall detection system that monitors the older people in a real time. The system has two major components one is wearable device and another one is mobile phone. Here we used wearable device, pendant to detect the fall. Once the wearable device detects the fall, it generates sound to alert the nearby people and sends an alert message to the user defined contacts. The wearable device has the capability of communicating with a mobile phone using Wi-Fi. So that we can avoid the need of carrying the mobile phone. Therefore, the quality of life of older people can be improved by using automatic fall detection systems.

Published
2020-08-01
Section
Articles