Cross-Platform Gait Analysis and Fall Detection Wearable Device

Ming-Hung Chang; Yi-Chao Wu; Hsi-Yu Niu; Yi-Ting Chen; Shu-Han Juang

doi:10.3390/app13053299

Applied Sciences (Mar 2023)

Cross-Platform Gait Analysis and Fall Detection Wearable Device

Ming-Hung Chang,
Yi-Chao Wu,
Hsi-Yu Niu,
Yi-Ting Chen,
Shu-Han Juang

Affiliations

Ming-Hung Chang: Department of Electrical Engineering, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan 333326, Taiwan
Yi-Chao Wu: Department of Electronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin 540301, Taiwan
Hsi-Yu Niu: Department of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung 807618, Taiwan
Yi-Ting Chen: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 202301, Taiwan
Shu-Han Juang: Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106344, Taiwan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app13053299
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 5
p. 3299

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Since the fall was often occurred in elders daily, this paper focused on gait analysis with fall detection to develop a wearable device. To ensure that the mobile application, APP, could be used in different platform of mobile phone, such Android or iOS, the designed wearable device also could be used in cross-platform in mobile phone. Therefore, a cross-platform gait analysis and fall detection wearable device (CPGAFDWD) was proposed. Since CPGAFDWD APP was used in web browser without limiting to platform, it could be used for different platforms of mobile phone. The gait analysis could be detected at home. The fall detection also could be executed in any place immediately. The patients and medical staff all could query the status of rehabilitation in any place and any time via the Internet. The experimental results showed that the correct rate of gait analysis and fall detection could be up to 90% in cross-platform of mobile phone. In the future, CPGAFDWD will be planned to be verified by Institutional Review Board, IRB, for clinical treatment.

Published in Applied Sciences

ISSN: 2076-3417 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); Science: Biology (General); Science: Physics; Science: Chemistry
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci

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