Fall Detection And Alert System For Home Alone Elderly

Ismail, Muhammad Syafwan (2016) Fall Detection And Alert System For Home Alone Elderly. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, there are many cases of home alone elderly get injured and some of them died on the spot due to the unnoticeable condition of falling event. Due to the growing population of the elderly, many solutions to overcome this problem are being developed. This report presents an approach to fall detection with Arduino microcontroller, Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) and accelerometer sensor. The developed device is designed as a belt. The system consists of the fall sensor and microcontroller attached to the belt and the falling events can be detected and notified the caregiver by using the GSM. This makes it possible to detect real falling event so that instant action can be taken by the caregiver. Few possible falling events were tested to analyze the condition of the falling events. Instead of only detecting falling events, this project manages to notify the caregiver of the home alone elderly of the elderly falling conditions.

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