Monitoring/Tracking - Fall Detection Service Sample Clauses

Monitoring/Tracking - Fall Detection Service. Fall detection is probably one of the most famous and prominent services in the AAL domain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of three older adults, with an age of 65 or older, falls each year. For this focus group, falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries. Therefore, systems that detect falls have been of increasing interest in the research community. The typical scenario is as follows: if the system detects a fall, a telephone or video conversation with a caregiver is established to verify that a fall has occurred and that help is needed. In that case, either the caregiver can provide help directly, e.g., a by a near-by living relative, or an emergency number can be called. By using depth-camera based low-level interpretations of the user and the environment in Task 2.2, the classical fall detection scenarios can be improved by adding information from the surrounding, because the system can determine if the user is e.g., lying on the ground or on the couch and if he is only sleeping or really fall down.

Monitoring/Tracking - Fall Detection Service. Fall detection is probably one of the most famous and prominent services in the AAL domain. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of three older adults, with an age of 65 or older, falls each year. For this focus group, falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries. Therefore, systems that detect falls have been of increasing interest in the research community. The typical scenario is as follows: if the system detects a fall, a telephone or video conversation with a caregiver is established to verify that a fall has occurred and that help is needed. In that case, either the caregiver can provide help directly, e.g., a by a near-by living relative, or an emergency number can be called.