Adding Fall Detection to Your Medical Alert System

Adding fall detection to your medical alert system helps make it more likely that you can get help if you need it.

It's a lifeline emergency alert that sends a signal to a monitoring center and then to your loved ones, who can try to reach you or call 911. Some devices also send GPS data, so they can tell emergency responders where to find you if you're in a location that's not covered by the primary device.

Currently, there are many types of systems that aim to detect falls (see Tables 4–6), including sensors worn on the skin, depth cameras, ambient sensors and ambient-aware sensor networks. gps tracker devices While a few studies have shown promising results, these systems are still suffering from high false alarms and cannot provide 100% accuracy.





Some wearable fall detection devices use motion-sensing technology to detect falls, such as the Mini Guardian from Medical Guardian, which is barely the length of a chapstick tube and rests around your neck with its detachable lanyard. When you fall, this 1.4-ounce device sends a signal to your medical alert system and a representative from the company's monitoring center attempts to contact you.

man down devices Fall detection has drawn increasing interest in recent years, with some research focusing on context-aware and machine learning approaches. However, most of the work done in this field has used simulated data and it is important to carry out experiments in real-life conditions (eg, older adults, in care facilities or furnished rooms) as well as with fall alarm systems.