Effectiveness of a Batteryless and Wireless Wearable Sensor System for Identifying Bed and Chair Exits in Healthy Older People

Effectiveness of a Batteryless and Wireless Wearable Sensor System for Identifying Bed and Chair Exits in Healthy Older People

Aging populations are increasing worldwide and strategies to minimize the impact of falls on older people need to be examined. Falls in hospitals are common and current hospital technological implementations use localized sensors on beds and chairs to alert caregivers of unsupervised patient ambulat...

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Main Authors: Roberto Luis Shinmoto Torres, Renuka Visvanathan, Stephen Hoskins, Anton van den Hengel, Damith C. Ranasinghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-04-01
Series:Sensors
Subjects:
fall prevention
bed exits
chair exits
weighted conditional random fields
older people
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/4/546

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