Research Article

Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System

Table 1

Test results for four kinds of falling and five kinds of ADL.

Motion typeAlarm times/test times
Proposed designAcceleration threshold based design

Forward fall60/6059/60
Backward fall56/6054/60
Leftward fall58/6052/60
Rightward fall59/6055/60
Walking0/604/60
Jumping0/6011/60
Squatting0/600/60
Sitting0/609/60
Resting5/6010/60