Heterogeneous Sensor Data Fusion for Human Falling Detection

• Main Authors: Daohua Pan, Hongwei Liu, Dongming Qu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Wearable sensor network; heterogeneous sensors; attitude measurement; data fusion
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9326351/

With the continuous improvement of human living standards, population aging has become a global development trend. At present, China has entered an aging society, the health and safety of the elderly have become the focus of social concern. Due to the aging of physiological structure and the decline of physical function, the probability and frequency of accidental falls in the elderly are very high. Under the above background, the purpose of this study is based on a heterogeneous sensor data fusion algorithm in an intelligent wearable sensor network. This article proposes a heterogeneous sensor data fusion algorithm based on wearable wireless body area network technology, and constructs a high-precision and stable wearable elderly activities of daily living (ADLs) and fall monitoring system. We first select the three-axis acceleration sensor, three-axis magnetic sensor, and three-axis angular velocity sensor to monitor the activities of the elderly. Then, we use Bluetooth to transmit the data collected by heterogeneous sensors to smartphones, and communicate with service centers and users through the mobile phone communication network, Family members interact to form a wireless city network based on wearable technology. Our proposed data fusion approach is based on the Kalman filter algorithm, which can reduce the system noise and improve the stability of the system. The experimental results demonstrate that the fall detection system proposed and implemented in this study can well detect accidental falls in the daily activities of the elderly, the sensitivity and specificity of the fall detection system are 98.7% and 98.5% respectively. The study in this article has a high research value and practical application significance in protecting the healthy life of the elderly.