TY - GEN
T1 - IPrevent
AU - Tang, Yao
AU - Peng, Zhengyu
AU - Ran, Lixin
AU - Li, Changzhi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the NSF under grant ECCS-1254838 and the NSFC under grant 61528104.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/9/27
Y1 - 2016/9/27
N2 - Falling is a serious and costly health problem for senior people. It is reported that one out of three senior people around the world falls every year. As a result, a large number of fall detection and fall prevention systems are developed. In existing technologies, camera-based and inertial measurement unit-based are two dominant methods for fall prevention. Considerable radar-based researches were carried out as well, however, most of them were focused on fall detection. Therefore, this paper presents a theoretical study on a novel all-time fall prevention system using on-shoe K-band frequency-modulaed continuous-wave(FMCW) radar, which is capable of detecting the absolute distance between the radar and the obstacles in front of the shoe. The concept of fall prevention is illustrated, and a FMCW radar prototype is tested to demonstrate the feasibility of radio frequency range detector for fall prevention.
AB - Falling is a serious and costly health problem for senior people. It is reported that one out of three senior people around the world falls every year. As a result, a large number of fall detection and fall prevention systems are developed. In existing technologies, camera-based and inertial measurement unit-based are two dominant methods for fall prevention. Considerable radar-based researches were carried out as well, however, most of them were focused on fall detection. Therefore, this paper presents a theoretical study on a novel all-time fall prevention system using on-shoe K-band frequency-modulaed continuous-wave(FMCW) radar, which is capable of detecting the absolute distance between the radar and the obstacles in front of the shoe. The concept of fall prevention is illustrated, and a FMCW radar prototype is tested to demonstrate the feasibility of radio frequency range detector for fall prevention.
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U2 - 10.1109/RFIT.2016.7578162
DO - 10.1109/RFIT.2016.7578162
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84994751023
T3 - RFIT 2016 - 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology
BT - RFIT 2016 - 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 24 August 2016 through 26 August 2016
ER -