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A new microcomputer-based safety and life support system for solitary-living elderly people.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Miyauchi, Kosuke Yonezawa, Yoshiharu Maki, Hiromichi Ogawa, Hidekuni Hahn, Allen W. Caldwell, W. Morton |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | A new safety and life support system has been developed to detect emergency situations of solitary-living elderly persons. The system employs a dual axis accelerometer, two low-power active filters, a low-power 8-bit single chip microcomputer and a personal handy phone. Body movements due to walking, running and posture changes are detected by the dual axis accelerometer and sent to the microcomputer. If the patient is in an inactive state for 5 minutes after falling, or for 64 minutes without previously falling, then the system automatically alarms the emergency situation, via the personal handy phone, to the patient's family, the fire station or the hospital. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 12724890 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 39 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://yonezawa.cc.it-hiroshima.ac.jp/en/topic/200304rmbs/2003rmbs-miyauchi.pdf |
| Journal | Biomedical sciences instrumentation |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
