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Volume-5, Issue-1 (January-April, 2020)
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3755238
Journal of Electronics and Communication
Systems
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IOT Based Patient Fall Prediction And Detection System
Amol Patil
*1
, Mayuri Gaikwad
2
, Harshali Gaikwad
2
, Swati Gavhar
2
, Harshal Galwade
2
1
Assistant Professor,
2
Undergraduate Student
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jawahar Education Society's, Annasaheb
Chudaman Patil College of Engineering, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, India
*Corresponding Author: agpatil@acpce.ac.in
ABSTRACT
This Paper states that fall detection and fall
prevention systems should require people to
wear or to interact with devices. To monitor the
system in 24/7 surveillance camera-based
systems do not have a monitoring system as no
object is attached here the sensors have to be
active obstructiveness is varies from system to
system as per the sensor used. Some systems
need additional gadgets like a wrist band or a
belt this has a data collection and robust with a
more responsive system. It does not depend on
wireless communication. Usually, it means
bigger and more obstructive devices. We are
tending to develop such a device that can alert
and predict patient falls to prevent any injury
due to falling.
Keywords-- Falling Detection, IoT based
Monitoring, Sensor
INTRODUCTION
The worldwide population of elderly who
are more than 65 years old is expected to grow to 1
billion in 2030, and the percentage of individuals
aged 20–64 years will become 35% of the
population. There are many vital signals like
application patients and people wear sensors to
detect the emergency condition. A fall is one of the
key factors that can lead to injuries and decrease
quality of life, at times resulting in the death of
elderly persons. People’s rate of falling increases
with their age [1]. Falls occur frequently in medical
health care centers, hospitals, or houses, with
approximately 30% of falls causing injury. Falls in
hospitals occur in the rooms of the patients (84%)
and during the transfer from one place to another
(19%). Majority of falls is due to chairs and beds
who falls in a nursing home or hospitals the reason
for fall can be aggravated by chronic disease such
as Osteoporosis, Delirium, and the aging person is
identified by the location of fall, time of fall
duration in such an incident it is important to have
rescue staff so that the family can be informed
about the incident through mobile or wireless
network. Microelectron mechanical has different
sensors and wireless networks. Wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) comprise several tiny and small
sensor nodes which are deployed over several
applications to monitor the physical environment
(e.g., temperature, humidity, vibration, pressure,
etc.) physiological parameters are used to monitor
the Heart rate, Blood pressure, Fall detection, etc.
are the patient vital signs. WSN has played a
significant role in medical applications for
monitoring elderly patients’ vital signs [2]. The
power consumption problem of the proposed fall
detection system (FDS) is also addressed. Fall
detection is of three types in that the first one is a
vision based that is the computer to capture images
or videos and is subdivides are GB camera, 3D
based method employing several cameras. This
system monitors the shape and position of the
subjects, which depends on image processing pre-
processing and pattern recognition techniques.
These are convenient and obstructive for elders and
more expensive than the other two types because it
needs a camera. Besides, the RGB camera needs to
be calibrated to allow a 3D reconstruction of the
body, resulting in a time-consuming and
computationally intensive procedure.
ORGANIZATION OF REPORT
The report is divided into four chapters.
Each chapter is giving brief information about the
project. The first chapter is the introduction of the
report, it discusses how the ancient patient
caretaking changes to high-tech patient fall
prediction and detection system and how
convenient it is. The second chapter is a literature
survey; it discusses the improvement in the system
used for patient monitoring. The third chapter gives
an overall system overview. It will provide
information about the block diagram, circuit
diagram, and all components and its proper
working [3]. Chapter four is the project’s
advantages, future enhancement and conclusion of
it as shown in Fig. 1.